Grandma's Ham recipe

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Ingredients

1 (12 pound) whole ham
1 liter ginger ale (such as Vernors®)
1 cup brown sugar
1 (8 ounce) can pineapple slices, drained, reserve juice
toothpicks
1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries

Nutrition Info

663 calories
carbohydrate: 21 g
cholesterol: 148.1 mg
fat: 40.1 g
fiber: 0.2 g
protein: 51.6 g
saturatedFat: 14.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 2846.8 mg
sugar: 18.8 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Place ham in a roasting pan.

  2. Pour ginger ale into the roasting pan. Rub brown sugar over the ham. Attach pineapple slices to outside of ham with toothpicks. Secure a cherry into the middle of each pineapple slice again using toothpicks. Pour reserved pineapple juice into pan with ginger ale. Tent aluminum foil over the ham.

  3. Bake ham in preheated oven for 4 hours. Remove aluminum foil and continue baking another 30 minutes.

Recipe Yield

18 servings

Recipe Note

This is an easy delicious ham that my grandma has made every year for Christmas, I got to make it for the first time last year for my family and it is always wonderful and beautiful.

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