This double smoked ham injected and basted with rum sauce or maple sauce will probably be one of the best thing you'll taste for a long time to come and it is so completely holiday worthy whether it's Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas or any day of the year.
Course Entree, Main
Cuisine American, Hot Smoking
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 3 hourshours
Total Time 3 hourshours20 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Ingredients
Main
Bone-in hamheat and eat
Jeff's original rub
Rum Sauce
⅓cupRumdark or spiced
⅓cupBrown sugar
¼lb(1 stick) Butter
Maple Sauce
⅓cupMaple syrup
2TBSBrown sugar
¼lb(1 stick) Butter
Instructions
Make the rum sauce or the maple sauce by adding the rum or maple syrup and butter to a sauce pan over low heat. Let the butter melt while you stir it around. Add in the brown sugar and let it dissolve while you continue to stir. Once everything is melted and dissolved and warm, remove from the heat. (Note: Do not let the sauce boil or you will end up making candy.)
With the ham wrapped in plastic (to contain the mess), fill the injector with the warm sauce and inject as much as you can at 1 inch intervals. Some of it will leak out but much of it stays in there and flavors the inside of the ham. When the injecting is finished, remove the plastic.
Brush a little of the rum or maple sauce onto the ham to make it nice and sticky then sprinkle Jeff's original rub all over the outside of the ham. The ham is now ready for the smoker.
Preheat your smoker to 225°F (107°C) using indirect heat. If your smoker uses a water pan, fill it up.
Once the smoker is ready, lay the pan with the ham on the smoker grate and close the lid/door.
Smoke cook for 3 hours or until the internal temperature of the ham reaches a good eating temperature or about 140°F (60°C).
Slice the ham into 1/4 inch thick pieces piled onto a nice platter.
If you have extra sauce, pour some of that onto the slices just before serving.
Notes
Disclaimer: Not all of the alcohol cooks out of the rum sauce during the brief warming period and during the time in the smoker. Rum adds a lot of nice flavor but there is still trace amounts of alcohol present when it is being served. The maple sauce is an excellent alternative.