Dutch Oven Ham

So, the, my dad started getting into Dutch Oven cooking when he went to Woodbadge I think is when he started getting into it. And, um, so we were out East — and there weren’t as many people that did Dutch Oven cooking, my dad’s really into it now— he even, designed and had someone manufacture his own Dutch oven table. Anyway so as he started doing this —I’m not sure where he got the recipe, but he makes this, um, Coke ham. So you buy the cheap ham, um smoked ham? Is that right? Jenn: No. No, oh, you’re right, it’s just on the bone, there’s a name for it that we — oh, summer Ham, I think that’s what they called it — but that doesn’t exist out east, west I mean. Um anyway it’s just a ham on the bone an use a hacksaw to cut it down, uh so it’ll fit inside the Dutch oven, if you have to which, in a small twelve, that’s the case but if you have a deep twelve then it’ll fit a little bit better, but he eventually bought this deep twelve Dutch oven just so that he could cook ham in it. Um, so we started eating it, um, just here and there Dad would make it — you basically, the recipe is pretty simple — you cook it for, an house or so so that it will, um, drain out the juices— you pour the juices off and pour a Coke, like a twenty-ounce Coke over the top of it, and then, and then, you just cook it in that for the remainder of the time until it gets to the temperature, and you baste it every so often — I forget how often — and then after that, at the very end at the last ten, fifteen minutes you pour honey over the top of it, and let the honey glaze. Anyway so we just, loved this ham so much it was delicious, and it falls off the bone for the most part and just super super tasty, and um just cook it in a Dutch oven. And, we started eating it so much and liked it so much that, someone requested? Or just Dad maybe said ‘Let’s have it for Thanksgiving’ and we were like, ‘yeah let’s do that’ [laughs] um, so we would um, first started having it for Thanksgiving, and for Christmas, yea, for Christmas and Thanksgiving every year, and sometimes he’ll cook, cook it with coals but other times we’ll just cook it in the oven, in the Dutch oven so, anyway, delicious