Recipe Courtesy of Paula DeenServings: 8 servings
Cook Time: 40 min
Difficulty: Easy
1 butt end smoked ham, about 7 pounds
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
1/2 cup orange marmalade
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
3 cans crescent rolls
Egg wash
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the ham in a roasting pan and lightly score it with a sharp knife all around. Stir the mustard, marmalade and black pepper together in a small mixing bowl with a spoon. Slather the mustard mixture all over the outside of the ham, rubbing it into the scored meat. Bake the ham for 20 minutes then remove it from the oven.
Using 2 cans of crescent rolls, unroll the crescent dough but don’t separate them into pieces. Press the perforated pieces together to keep the dough in its rectangular shape. Drape them over the ham pressing the dough edges together to cover the ham completely with the dough. Tuck any loose edges underneath the bottom of the ham in the roasting pan. Brush with egg wash.
Lay the last piece can of dough out on a cutting board and cut our some holiday shapes with cookie cutters. Holly leaves are nice. Arrange the dough leaves in a pretty bunch on the dough draped ham. Brush these shapes with egg wash.
Return the ham to the oven and bake for another 20 minutes until the ham is heated through and the crescent dough is cooked and browned.
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could not find any of the smithfield hams you have advertised as we always buy one for Christmas and/or New Years Not to be had on Long Island called several Waldbaums but they never got them in even called smithfiels c/s but got a run around what happened?
By Helen on January 02, 2012
i love your shows and your books i have learned alote from it.
By milred evans on December 24, 2010
What a wonderful recipe for the Christmas Ham. I was just trying to figure out how to prepare this ham I purchased and give it some panache. And, as usual, there was a recipe from Ms Deen. This is the first time I have gone to this website, but guarantee it wont be my last. Thanks so much and have a terrific holiday Season , I know that I and my guests will have a terrific dinner. Thanks again. best wishes for the New Year.
By timothy on December 22, 2010
By Anonymous on November 24, 2010
That is so neat. I've never seen it like that before. Love you paula.
By DKrusinski on September 03, 2009
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