This week I am giving you my official Christmas recipe for this year. It is a delicious double-smoked ham with my own homemade glaze recipe as well, sure to make you the hero of your Christmas dinner.
I wanted to start a new thing for Christmas this year and start offering a signature recipe to you all for every major holiday to help give you new ways to be able to impress your family and friends. Since Christmas dinner is often associated with ham, that’s exactly what I did. I was able to find a 10-pound Sugardale ham shank from Pick n Save at $.89/ pound, so you can see why I went that route, it was a good price I didn’t want to pass up.
Since hams are mostly sold cured and pre-cooked, you are really just warming the ham up using smoke. They are usually cooked by smoking them, so that’s where the term “double-smoked ham” came from at the beginning, you are essentially double-smoking it. Because they are cured and pre-cooked, you only have to cook them to about 130-135 degrees internally, much like the instructions on the label said. There is nothing wrong with taking it past 140, but it could dry out, especially if it is a completely spiral-cut ham.
In preparing the ham, I pulled it out of the fridge and let it sit out for about 1-1.5 hours on the counter to bring it to room temperature. I decided to use my Old Country BBQ Pits G2 insulated offset smoker for this cook, so while the ham sat out, I got the charcoals lit and dialed the smoker to 275 degrees using hickory wood. Thankfully there was no trouble maintaining 275 in this weather due to the insulated fire box. I added a small piece of hickory roughly every 45-50 minutes.
Once the smoker was ready, I used a flexible boning knife and made slices at an angle to allow the ham to expand, and to also help get the rub down into the meat. Since it was cured, I decided to use only one rub instead of two because it didn’t need the added salt. I used the And Then Some rub heavily across the entire exterior and spread the meat apart at the slices I made to help that rub get down in there. I added one of my Govee meat thermometer probes into the meaty part, away from the bone, then put the ham in a disposable aluminum tray to help with cleanup and put it on the smoker.
Once the internal temp hit 130, I mixed up the glaze and added it to the outside of the ham so it had a little bit of time to adhere to the ham, take a little bit of smoke, and all without being on too long and burning. The glaze was a really simple mix of Blues Hog Championship Blend BBQ Sauce, Real Maple Syrup, and Pineapple Juice. I mixed them up and coated the outside of the ham and left it on until the internal temp of the ham was 135. At that point, I pulled the ham off the smoker, wrapped some foil over the top so the ham could rest in its own heat, took my pictures, and enjoyed. I can honestly tell you this was the best-tasting and juiciest ham I have ever eaten in my life. Much like the Thanksgiving turkey I did, this was a redemption ham for me because I have not had the best luck with double-smoking ham, but also like the turkey, I am redeemed.
I have the recipe below for you to remake on your own, and I can’t wait to hear how it goes!
Ingredients:
- 1, 10 pound ham shank, not spiral-cut
- Lovely Jubbly BBQ’s And Then Some BBQ Rub
Glaze Ingredients:
- 1/2 Cup Blues Hog Championship Blend BBQ Sauce
- 1/4 Cup Real Maple Syrup
- 1/8 Cup Pineapple Juice.
Recipe:
- Let ham sit on the counter and come to room temperature
- Set up smoker for indirect cooking and set to 275 degrees.
- Slice the ham to allow for expansion
- Add the And Then Some BBQ rub heavily to the outside of the ham.
- Place on the smoker until it reaches 130 degrees internally
- Mix up the glaze and apply evenly to the entire outside of the ham
- Once ham reaches 135 internally, or your desired temperature, pull off and allow to rest for at least 30 minutes.
- Slice ham and enjoy.
Total time: 4.5 hours
Don’t forget to check out http://www.lovelyjubblybbq.com for our signature rubs and even more great BBQ products and accessories! Our rubs are also exclusively in store at Ava’s a posh boutique in Watertown, WI if you just can’t wait for shipping!
If you are looking for a Pit Boss pellet grill or other Pit Boss accessories for yourself or someone you love, follow the link below to the Pit Boss website where they have some fantastic deals on some even more fantastic products! As an avid Pit Boss user, I couldn’t be more proud to be an affiliate of Pit Boss Grills and I look forward to growing this partnership over time.
https://pitbossgrills.77jaha.net/zxx49x
As always, keep cookin’ and Lovely Jubbly!
Lovely Jubbly BBQ 