Honey and Brown Sugar-Crusted Ham

Ingredients

• 1 cup firmly brown sugar dark packed
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 0.8 cup honey 
• 9 lb ready-to-cook bone-in

Equipment

• oven
• knife
• roasting pan
• kitchen thermometer
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Slice away hard outer skin from ham with a sharp knife, leaving a thin layer of fat.
2. Place ham, fat side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Score top of ham in a diamond pattern; insert a meat thermometer into ham, making sure it does not touch fat or bone.
3. Bake ham on lowest oven rack at 325 for 1 1/2 hours.
4. Remove ham from oven, leaving oven on.
5. Brush ham with honey.
6. Combine sugar and spices; pat over honey, coating ham well.
7. Return ham to oven, and continue to bake at 325 for 35 to 45 minutes or until thermometer registers 14
8. (Cover ham with aluminum foil during the last 20 minutes, if necessary, to prevent excessive browning.)
9. Let ham stand 15 minutes before carving.