Name: Root Beer–Glazed Ham
Yield: Serves twenty-five to thirty
Cuisine: Cajun
Ingredients: One 10–14-lb. cured, smoked ham; 24 oz. (2 cans) Barq’s root beer; 4½ tsp. pepper jelly; 1 bay leaf; 4½ tsp. Tabasco Caribbean Style Steak Sauce or Pickapeppa; 1 stick cinnamon; Peel and juice of ½ orange; ¾ cup dark brown sugar; ½ tsp. dry mustard; Peel of ½ lemon

Preparation info

Serves
twenty-five to thirty

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tom Fitzmorris's New Orleans Food

By Tom Fitzmorris

Published 2018

About

This is without a doubt the most-asked-for recipe in the 17-year history of my radio show. Demand for it rises during the holidays but never goes away completely.

The root beer–glazed ham is a fixture on my table on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. It’s in the oven all morning (good thing my turkey is usually out on the grill!), and it makes the whole house smell good. You’ll find that lots of your guests will fight over the black crusty parts of the ham (and all the rest of it,