Recipe - Ham With Cherry Sauce

One half Fully cooked bonein ham
(6 to 7 pounds)
1 Jar (12 oz.) cherry
preserves
One fourth cup Cider or red wine vinegar
2 tablespoon Light corn syrup
One fourth teaspoon Each ground cloves, cinnamon
and nutmeg
3 tablespoon Slivered almonds

Place ham on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. If desired, remove skin
from ham and score the surface with shallow diagonal cuts, making diamond
shapes. Bake, uncovered, at 325F for 1 One half to 2 hours or until a meat
thermometer reads 140F. In a saucepan, combine the preserves, vinegar,
corn syrup, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Bring to a boil, stirring often.
Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir
in almonds. Serve with the ham. Yield: 10 12 servings ( 1 One half cups
sauce). Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com Source: Quick Cooking
Nov/Dec 98.

Posted to MMRecipes Digest by "Cindy Hartlin" cjhartlin@email.msn.com
on Nov 9, 1998