Baked ham (honeyed and all!)

MypinchofItaly said:
Yes šŸ˜Š it is basically cooked ham baked in honey, brown sugar and cloves sauce. OMG!!
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MypinchofItaly said:
I tried it at the Food Store where I am working outside Cork. OMG it is absolutely delicious!
I have also seen it in other two supermarkets in Cork.
So is it American ham? I thought it
was Irish
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Well to each their own. I know I am a bit weird, LOL. And it's our differences that make us all interesting and unique.

I think most people enjoy it greatly, given the lines wrapped around the outside of the building just before the holidays. And it ain't' cheap!

I googled it after you first mentioned...well I googled Irish honeybaked ham and Honeybaked EU, just to see what was over on the other side of the ocean. I saw recipes online from the search hits for an Irish honey and mustard glaze ham, which sounded much better to me, though I still wouldn't love it. But I would rather eat some turkey (without a glaze, thank you).
 
Barriehie said:
Since it's just me and the non-excercising dog I never buy the whole ham that's just too much and too pricey. I get the bones for $5 or $6 ad those still have several lbs. of meat on them. When the meats done the bone works very well for the red beans in red beans and rice. I never noticed a sweet flavor in the bone broth.
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They sell the bones? Add enough cajun spice to anything and it will cover it up nicely. I love red beans and rice!

I will buy a bone in smoked ham from the grocer and section it up and freeze it for soup. I love ham and bean soup!
 
Honey, honey and mustard, cranberry glazed, studded with cloves or crusted with a bread mustard and muscovado sugar mix or even marmalade are all extremely common ways of having ham here.
It's pretty much obligatory Christmas and gets rolled out every time there's big picnic or celebratory buffet lunch.
It is very much a British tradition.

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Odd thing is it's pretty much as staple offering in the UK so I assumed everywhere had it, doh šŸ˜‚
 
My dad used to make a baked ham - but only at Xmas time. It was pretty simple, and I doubt he put honey on it. He'd soak it in beer overnight, s&p (probably) then bake it.
I must have been about 14-15 and he asked me to do it for him, but I boiled the ham in the beer. Good job he came home in time to rescue it and stick it in the oven!
I did get a sort of backhanded compliment, however, because he said it was "pretty good", in spite of the cock-up.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Honey, honey and mustard, cranberry glazed, studded with cloves or crusted with a bread mustard and muscovado sugar mix or even marmalade are all extremely common ways of having ham here.
It's pretty much obligatory Christmas and gets rolled out every time there's big picnic or celebratory buffet lunch.
It is very much a British tradition.

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Odd thing is it's pretty much as staple offering in the UK so I assumed everywhere had it, doh šŸ˜‚
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My maternal grandfather was English so my mum got all kinds of weird food traditions from that side of the family. Like fruit cake. But she used to do this really weird ham with cloves and pineapple rings and marischino cherries on it. I am pretty sure that was just 1950s-1960s Americana and had nothing to do with UK roots.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Odd thing is it's pretty much as staple offering in the UK so I assumed everywhere had it, doh
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It certainly is here - New Yearā€™s, Easter, and Christmas are big ham holidaysā€¦but itā€™s also common year-round, so the stores are always well-stocked with baked hams.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
she used to do this really weird ham with cloves and pineapple rings and marischino cherries on it. I am pretty sure that was just 1950s-1960s Americana and had nothing to do with UK roots.
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Very British!
Elisabeth Ayrton was an English novelist and cookery writer. In her book " The Cookery of England" (pub. 1974) she explains how to bake a ham (I paraphrase):
" Soak the ham for 6-12 hours.... stick the top of the ham all over with cloves... spread with golden syrup or treacle, then brown sugar...neat squares of pineapple can be arranged ...between the cloves"
Maraschino cherries were very popular in the 60s & 70s. In cocktails, on ice cream and (why not?) on baked ham!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
My maternal grandfather was English so my mum got all kinds of weird food traditions from that side of the family. Like fruit cake. But she used to do this really weird ham with cloves and pineapple rings and marischino cherries on it. I am pretty sure that was just 1950s-1960s Americana and had nothing to do with UK roots.
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Sounds very 60/70s British. I'm not sure who started the trend of sticking cherries on things that cherries had no right to be near but in the seventies they appeared on all sorts.
But your maraschino cherries are a step up from the 'glacƩ cherries' used in the UK
GlacĆ© cherries are much worse šŸ˜†

Maybe the phrase 'the cherry on top' short circuited in the expanding psychedelic minds of the time and it couldn't be anything other than an improvement to add a cherry on top šŸ˜‚
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The height of sophistication, how can it possibly have fallen out of favour šŸ˜†
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
The height of sophistication, how can it possibly have fallen out of favour šŸ˜†
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Those pineapple-cherry hams were everywhere here from the 1950ā€™s to the 1970ā€™s. Any dinner party, holiday, picnic even, someone would roll up with one of those hams.

Theyā€™re in every church fundraiser cookbook ever made, I think. I have two recipes for itā€¦that I know of. I also have one thatā€™s the ā€œdeluxeā€ version - bananas, maraschino cherries, canned peaches, canned pears, and sweet potatoes.
 
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