GRANDMA'S HAM

Grandma's Ham image

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.

Provided by Fawn

Categories Main Dish Recipes Pork Ham Whole

Time 4h40m

Yield 18

Number Of Ingredients 6

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

Steps:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Place ham in a roasting pan.
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.
Bake ham in preheated oven for 4 hours. Remove aluminum foil and continue baking another 30 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 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, Sodium 2846.8 mg, Sugar 18.8 g