Enjoy a Recipe For Mouth-Watering Amish Barbecued Ham

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If you like ham - and you like barbecue sauce - this recipe is for you. I made some for supper and loved it, so much so that I had the leftovers for lunch the next day, and supper the next day. This is easy to make and has a superb taste.

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• ❓ What is Clear-Jel?
• 📋 Step-by-Step Barbecued Ham
• 🐖 More Amish Ham Recipes
• 🖨️ Full Recipe

❓ What is Clear-Jel?

This is an interesting recipe because it calls for a favorite of Amish cooks: clear-gel.  Clear-jel is a thickener often used in pie fillings.  This is one of the few times I've run across its inclusion in an entree or savory recipe.

I can often find clear-jel in Amish-owned bulk food stores.  You could use cornstarch in this recipe as a substitute.  Clear-jel and cornstarch are not 100 percent interchangeable, but they are most of the time.  This is a decent explanation of the differences between the two.

Clear-jel is a modified version of cornstarch and where you begin to run into problems substituting one for the one is in home-canning where a ton of science and chemical reactions take place.  But for barbecued ham?  If you don't have clear-jel, and you probably don't, just use cornstarch.

📋 Step-by-Step Barbecued Ham

There are things you can do to make this recipe even easier. Do what I did and buy chopped ham and chopped onion then it truly becomes something you throw together. Although, actually, if I were making it again I would not buy pre-chopped ham. The pieces were too uniform where it felt like I was eating cereal or dog food. This recipe would be perfect for leftover Christmas or Easter ham where you could just tear into chunks. Yeah, I think chunks of ham of varying sizes would be amazing.

 This recipe comes from an Amish woman in Kentucky and I'm sure she knows exactly what she is doing in preparing it, but...you are going to have to use some guesswork.  The flavors are super.

  The ingredients are pretty basic. And, yes, I went the lazy way and bought pre-chopped onions but, like the ham, I think it would be better with sliced onions with pieces of varying sizes.

This is everything on the stove before I started stirring it and before the butter began to melt.

Stir the sauce over medium heat until thickened and well-combined and then pour over the ham and pop in the oven.

I served the ham on a slice of bread. I'm not sure what it is with me and bread and why I have to eat everything on bread. I paired it with some rice and quinoa and it was really good.

🐖 More Amish Ham Recipes

Double Ham & Cheese Bake - Wow!

Ham Glaze - So good!
Ham & Cheese Soup - Sandwich in a bowl!

Sugar-Glazed Ham

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