Baked Fresh Ham, Southern Style

Yield: 8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

• 6 pound fresh ham
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 hot dried red pepper
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 1 tablespoon powdered mustard
• 1 tablespoon horseradish
• 1 garlic clove
• Whole cloves
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar

Instructions

1. Put ham in kettle and cover with boiling water. Add next 4 ingredients. Bring to boil. Cover and simmer for 2 hours.
2. Cool in the broth and refrigerate overnight.
3. Remove rind from ham.
4. Mix mustard and horseradish and rub on fat. Insert garlic in the fat. Put on rack and bake in preheated slow oven (300 degrees F) for 2 hours.
5. Score fat with a knife, stud with cloves and sprinkle with the sugar.
6. Bake for 1 hour longer, basting occasionally with drippings in the pan.