Brown Sugar Honey-Crusted Ham

Ingredients

• 1 cup firmly brown sugar light packed
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg 
• 8 pound ham half smoked shank end
• 0.7 cup honey 
• 14 servings garnishes: lady apples and kumquats 

Equipment

• oven
• roasting pan
• kitchen thermometer
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Remove skin and excess fat from ham.
2. Place ham, fat side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan lined with heavy-duty aluminum foil.
3. Bake, uncovered, at 325 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
4. Remove from oven.
5. Brush honey all over ham.
6. Combine brown sugar and next 3 ingredients; pat sugar mixture over honey, coating ham thoroughly.
7. Bake, uncovered, for 1 more hour or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of ham registers 14
8. Remove to a serving platter.
9. Garnish, if desired.