To prepare this festive delicacy you will need a piece of pork shank in brine. In America it is called “urban ham “(Eng. city ham) and after the ambassador requires baking. To bake tasty and serve ham beautifully few ingredients: ham itself, as well as mustard, brown sugar, a little bourbon and chopped ginger cookies to cover the entire surface of the ham and after baking it turned out spicy crust unusual on taste. Cut the finished ham into slices and serve with a side dish on any occasion, be it New год, Рождество или Пасха. 
Time: 6 hour. 15 minutes. Difficulty: easy Servings: 10-15 The recipes use dimensional capacity: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cups (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teahouse spoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 1 American city ham in brine, shank *
- 1/4 Art. spicy mustard
- 2 tbsp. dark brown sugar
- 30 ml bourbon (pour into a spray bottle)
- 2 tbsp. crushed ginger cookies
Recipes with similar ingredients: ham, mustard, sugar brown, bourbon, shortbread cookies
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 120 ° C.
- Remove the ham from the packaging, rinse thoroughly. Put ham cut down into the roasting pan. Using a small knife to clean peels or a clean retractable knife with a very slightly extended blade, draw a notch along the ham from bottom to top, moving along spirals clockwise (if you use a knife to clean peel, be careful not to cut deeper than the skin layer and the first few layers of fat). After each cut, turn ham so that the cuts are at a distance of not more than 5 cm. each from friend. After you make parallel cuts all over piece, take the knife in the other hand and repeat the same thing spiral counterclockwise. The goal is to create a mesh pattern over the entire surface of the ham (don’t worry if your pattern turns out to be imperfect).
- Cover the ham with foil, insert a thermometer and bake 3-4 hours or until the internal temperature is at the deepest parts of meat will not reach 55 ° C.
- Remove the ham from the oven and use a pair of tongs to separate squares of the skin and the fat escaping with it.
- Heat the oven to 175 ° C.
- Blot the ham with paper towels, then apply mustard with a culinary brush (or use a new paint brush). Sprinkle with brown sugar, loosely pressing it until the ham is will be completely covered by it. Sprinkle this layer lightly with bourbon, and then freely press as much crumbled as possible gingerbread cookie.
- Insert a thermometer into the meat (do not insert into the same hole) and put the ham again in the oven without covering. Bake to those until the internal temperature of the meat reaches 60 ° C, approximately 1 час.
- Leave the meat to rest for 30 minutes, and then chop. * Note: American urban ham is any salted ham packed in a plastic bag stored in the refrigerator and having on label “ready to cook”, “partially cooked “or” ready to eat. “Good city ham is also marked “in its own juice.”
