Recipe For Christmas Ham With Pineapple
In a saucepan combine the pineapple juice brown sugar honey and orange juice.
Recipe for christmas ham with pineapple. 5 cover the ham with pineapple slices. Make sure that the ham is completely thawed. Press a clove into the center of each diamond.
And other fruit juices may be added to the blend but the acidity of the pineapple juice and the wine combination is hard to beat for tender moist ham. Burgundy wine may easily be substituted for the sangria. Pour the glaze over the ham and cover it with a lid or aluminum foil.
Baste the ham every 20 to 30 minutes. Drain pineapple reserving 1 4 cup of the juice. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cloves.
Insert cloves into diamonds. Preheat oven to 325 f. In a large measuring cup or medium sized bowl combine the pineapple juice cherry juice brown sugar mustard honey ginger clove nutmeg and cinnamon.
Take the ham out of the oven and brush half of the glaze over the ham and down into the slices. Cover and bake at 325 for 1 1 2 hours. Then spread the crushed pineapple over it and then about half of the remaining glaze over the surface.
Decorate the ham with pineapples cherries using the toothpicks to hold everything in place. Score the surface with shallow diagonal cuts making diamond shapes. The next day remove the ham from the refrigerator.