Leusch Family Recipes

Basting Sauce for Ham

Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/3 Cups Brown Sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons Cider or Wine Vinegar
  • Ham Drippings
  • 2 Tablespoons Dry Mustard
  • 1/3 Cup Fine Bread Crumbs
  • Whole Cloves

Instructions

Combine the brown sugar, dry mustard and bread crumbs. Moisten the mixture with the vinegar and the ham drippings. 1 hour before the ham is done, remove the rind and all but the collar around the shank bone. Put several slits in the ham and insert 1 whole clove in each. Put the basting sauce all over the ham. Continue baking at 325 degrees for 45 minutes. Increase the temperature to 425 degrees and bake an additional 15 minutes.