Baked Ham with Gravy
This is a simple way to prepare a juicy and delicious ham. You can serve this with mashed potatoes and the vegetable of your choice.
You can prepare a ham anytime, it doesn’t need to be Christmas or Easter. When we prepare a large ham for dinner, we can get another 5 meals out of it from leftovers such as pea soup, red beans and rice, and ham & gravy over noodles.
Baked Ham with Gravy
Ingredients
- 1 Cured and Cooked Ham 10-15#
- 1 Oven Bag
- Yellow Mustard
- Cracked Black Pepper
- Brown Sugar
- 1 can of Cream of Chicken Soup
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
- Place the ham in an oven bag, this will help to cook it while retaining all of it’s juices.
- Place the ham in a roasting pan, on a rack to keep it up off the bottom of the pan.
- Cook for about 10 minutes per pound at 300 degrees. Preferably, use a thermometer and cook to 110-120 degrees.
- Remove the ham and raise the oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut the bag and remove it from around the ham, being careful that any juices go into the pan.
- Cut the top of the ham with a knife, in a cube pattern with several cuts across the ham in two directions.
- Drizzle the top of the ham with yellow mustard and spread it around with a basting brush.
- Sprinkle the ham with black pepper. Then, sprinkle the ham with brown sugar, pressing it down into the cuts on the ham.
- Place the ham back into the 400 degree oven for 10-15 minutes to brown the top.
- Remove the ham and let it stand, covered with foil, for 10 minutes.
- While the ham is standing, pour the juice from the pan into a bowl and whisk the can of soup into the pan juices to make the gravy.