Blackberry-Mustard Glazed Ham

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup apple juice 
• 5 pound 3%-less-sodium smoked bone-in fully-cooked
• 13 ounce blackberry preserves 
• 7.3 ounce whole-grain dijon mustard 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• kitchen thermometer
• broiler pan

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Trim fat and rind from ham. Score outside of ham in a diamond pattern.
3. Place ham on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray.
4. Combine juice, preserves, and mustard in a medium bowl, stirring until well combined. Set aside half of preserves mixture.
5. Bake ham at 350 for 1 1/2 hours or until a thermometer registers 140, basting with half of preserves mixture every 20 minutes.
6. Remove ham from oven.
7. Place ham on a platter; cover and let stand 15 minutes before slicing.
8. Place reserved preserves mixture in a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Cook until reduced to 1 cup (about 15 minutes).
9. Serve sauce with ham.
10. Wine note: Smoked ham is a wine challenge--the dominance of the smoke usually ends up making wine taste like water. But one part of the world has a lot of experience pairing ham and pork with wine, and that's the Alsace region of France. With a ham dish as complex as this one, opt for one of the most dramatic wines from Alsace: a dry muscat. Domaine Weinbach's Muscat Rserve 2003 ($3
11. is one of the best and dramatic enough to match this ham. Its exuberant fruity flavors must be experienced to be believed. -KM