Alton Brown's "Good Eats" Recipe
Get a "City Ham" which is just the bone-in, fully cooked, water-added.
This one weighed in @ 9 lbs. (Still some in the fridge)
Preheat oven to 250 degrees
Make a tin foil tent by rolling out about 5 ft. of foil
cut in half and line up side by side, overlapping by a few inches, then fold over the flap a few times to create a seal. Place ham on a dry kitchen towel in a roasting rack and put tent over ham, making sure that it is not touching the ham, but creating a seal with the roasting rack.
Bake for 3-4 hours, until center of ham is about 160 degrees
(While ham is in the oven, put ginger snap cookies in a food processor and chop fine)
Change oven temperature to 350.
While ham is still warm, rub or brush dijon mustard over whole ham
Then, cover mustard layer with dark brown sugar
(This next part requires some hardware, a spray bottle of bourbon. This step could probably be skipped if you don't want to buy a bottle of bourbon and a spray bottle just for this one ham, but it does add flavor and adhesiveness for the final layer)
Generously spray ham with bourbon
Finally, coat with chopped ginger snaps
Put tin foil tent back over ham and cook for 1-2 hours, or until center is 165 degrees
To slice, get a pair of locking pliers to grab hold of the bone
Use carving knife if you've got one, or a good serrated knife otherwise
So delicious!!
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