Sugar-Glazed Ham recipe - Disappeared from cooking topics?

Using my magic time machine, I went back and found that sometime between Feb 02, 2007 and April 30, 2007

http://virtualweberbullet.com/ham2.html changed from being:

"Spiral-Sliced Ham - Sugar Glazed"

to just:

"Spiral-Sliced Ham"

I can only assume this was intentional - was there some group that claimed copyright on the recipe or something?

In any case - I found the recipe from my time machine (aka archive.org), but didn't want to post it without figuring out if it was some kind of forbidden recipe now.

I don't know the answer to why the recipe disappeared. I can tell you though that recipes--ingredient lists and procedural steps--are not copyrightable. It is the prose beyond these two elements--the details of technique, the color commentary on the dish, the ingredients and/or the procedures--that is subject to copyright restrictions.

If anyone ever wants to find the recipe again, it's available here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030812062739/virtualweberbullet.com/ham2.html

(gotta love Archive.org - it's one of my favorite sites on the web! )

Here is a link glazes to a thread that includes a link to a tutorial posted by Kevin Kruger on glazes. Outstanding results.

I removed the sugar glazed part of that page because I was never satisfied with the result I was trying to demonstrate.

I was trying to duplicate the Honeybaked Ham Store glaze effect on a sprial-sliced ham that had been heated in the WSM, and it's not easy to do for several reasons. One is you need a really big torch, and most people don't have that. Another is that once you heat a spiral-sliced ham, the slices shrink and the edges get wavy, making it impossible to get that thick, crackling layer of glaze you see on a honey-baked ham (since they are glazing a cold, sliced ham).

I figured that if I had difficulty duplicating the end result, so would my readers, so I finally gave up and removed it.

Regards,
Chris