Ham Glazed with Honey Mead

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Preparation time: 40 minutes

Cooking time: 90 minutes

1 large ham (around 6kilos/13lbs)
Cloves
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup mead
1 tablespoon seeded mustard
1 chilli, sliced (optional)

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Step 1 - Preheat oven to 170C/340F and line a large baking tray with parchment (one large enough to fit your ham). Remove rind from ham - you should be able to get it off in one piece and try to lift it off carefully and slowly leaving an even layer of fat underneath it. Stud with cloves lining them up so that they're in evenly spaced lines. Then score the fat with a sharp knife.

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Stud with cloves first

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Then score using cloves as a guide

Step 2 - Mix the brown sugar, mead, mustard and chilli. Baste the ham all over with some of this mixture and then bake in the oven for 2 hours basting the ham with rest of the brown sugar mead mixture every 30 minutes.

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