Christmas Dinner Menu

It is common knowledge that baked ham is a traditional meat for Christmas dinner. The advantage of this meat is that if you did not manage to cook ham, with no efforts you can buy in your local store a pre-cooked and pre-cut one. The only thing you will need to do is to heat ham. To bring into your ham a tasty flavor you may add maple syrup, brown sugar, pear or pineapple juices. You can use a glaze as well.
If you prefer to cook baked ham by yourselves the following tip will be very helpful for you. To preserve the ham’s moisture put the meat cut side down on the roasting pan and covering it with a tent of the foil. Take off the foil tent for the last fifteen-twenty minutes of meal’s cooking. If you wish to burnish the glaze for baked ham you will need to boil oven to broil within 5 minutes.
Before preparing this tasty Christmas meal do not forget to consult for baking time with the label on the bought ham. As a rule, fully cooked ham’s baking time is 10 minutes per pound. Partially cooked ham should be baked until the internal temperature is 160 degrees F, it is about 20 minutes per pound.
It is up to you to buy either boneless ham or bone-in one.

Note more flavorful is bone-in ham, however, it is not so easy to cut it. Serving measure for bone-in ham is about 1/2 to 3/4 pound per person; for boneless one it is1/4 to 1/2 pound per person. If possible, purchase more ham as there are lots of leftovers.
Nowadays you can obtain spiral sliced ham that is fully cooked. You do not need much time or efforts to cook it because everything you need is just to heat it following the direction displayed at the label. It goes with a glaze baked onto meal.
If you wish to store leftover ham you can place it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. You can also freeze it, thus, it will be kept for up to 2 months.No doubt, your Christmas ham will be the tasty one. Enjoy it!