Steve's Hotlanta Ham

Ingredients:

• 2x 2ltr bottle of Coca-Cola
• 2 onions studded with 6 cloves
• 4 teaspoons mixed herbs
• mustard powder – Colemans
• 30 whole cloves
• ½ of a 12oz jar black treacle or molasses
• applewood chunks

Soak the uncooked ham in water overnight. Then discard the water

Put the ham in a dutch oven add the onions and Coca-Cola to just cover the meat and gently braise for 2 hours at 250f.

Let the ham cool in the liquor for an hour. Keep the liquor.

Remove the cooked ham, remove the skin – leaving a layer of fat on the meat. Score the fat, insert the cloves, paint on the molasses then dust with the mustard powder.

Reduce the liquor to a demi-glaze.

Refrigerate overnight

Gently roast in a smoking BGE (applewood smoke is good but might be fun to use mesquite) at 300f for 2hours basting with the reduced coke liquor as required.

At the end of the roasting time raise the temp in the BGE to 450f and paint the ham with the molasses and roast for a further 10 minutes to caramelize the treacle.

Remove from BGE, rest, unwrapped for 30 minutes to let the coating harden, let the heat equalize through the meat and the juices to set.

Serve!

Serves 12-16 people with 6oz servings

If you are lucky enough to have 20 friends who trust you to feed them, then a 17-18lb ham with feed them plenty, but be warned – ALL your timing MUST be doubled!!