The Gourmet Butcher's Maple Ham

Ingredients

1 block ham (read below to find out what this is)

maple syrup (darker is better)

cloves

Preparation

Begin with a nice pre-cooked bone-in block ham. What’s a block ham? … it’s simply a ham with the shank bone removed, resulting in a piece of meat that looks sorta like a block. Ask your butcher to slice it into ½ to ¾ inch thick slices. He’ll have to use his meat saw to cut through the bone.

Rub each slice with dark brown sugar and maple syrup and stack together. Every few slices, insert a whole clove. Then tie the whole thing back together nice ane tight so it looks like a whole ham again.

Place into a roasting pan, pour some pure Vermont dark maple syrup and cover the pan loosely. Then into a 350 degree F oven.

I have no idea how long to cook this – but since it’s a precooked ham, just about ten minutes per pound should do it.