The Cook Is Out

Well my cooking plan seems to be working, not perfectly but sufficiently. The ham is made and we had ham omelets this morning. We'll have it for sandwiches and other meal ideas next week.
Easter is a really busy time for pastors and it often doesn't let up the next week.
Cooking the spiral ham was really easy but it can take some time. However, if you do it while other things are going on, or you're reading, blogging or watching TV it's not time consuming.
One thing that I read to shorten the cooking time for the ham was to put it in warm water for 45 minutes and then again for 45 minutes. This raises the internal temperature and prevents the ham from drying out. Leave it in the plastic packaging it comes in to warm and then remove the plastic. After this I wrapped it in foil real tightly, preheated the oven to 250 and baked it for 60 minutes. The ham was a little over 5 lbs, so about 12 minutes per pound. It came with a glaze so I used about 1/3 of it to brush over the ham and left the ham opened, raised the oven temperature to 350 and heated it for 10 minutes. Then I let it rest tented 10 minutes and put 1/3 more of the glaze on it and mixed the remaining glaze with 2 tbsp of drippings from the ham to serve as a sauce. It was real easy to remove from the bone. Wow was it great.
I left some of the meat on the bone and froze it to make ham bone soup in the near future. Time is short so I'll get back to you next week; the cook is out. Happy Resurrection Day!