Grandmag's Baked Christmas Ham

Total Time: 5 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• 20 -30 lbs whole smoked ham
• 1 (16 ounce) can pineapple slices, set aside the liquid (if you have a smaller ham use the 4 ounce can)
• 8 maraschino cherries, whole, set aside 2 teaspoons liquid (i use the red and the green colored ones)
• 2 (16 ounce) boxes brown sugar (i use dark brown sugar)
• 1 (1 ounce) jar whole cloves
• 1 cup honey
• wooden toothpick

Recipe

• 1 wash ham throughly.
• 2 cut diagional criss crossed lines one inch apart, one inch deep.
• 3 when you are finished the cut lines should look diamond shape.
• 4 this has to be done all around the whole ham.
• 5 insert whole clove in each crossed section.
• 6 try to push the clove down at least an inch into the meat.
• 7 bake one hour covered, in very deep baking pan, at 275 degrees.
• 8 this is where my grannyn would have the ham in a paper bag.
• 9 drain off fat.
• 10 bake another hour covered at 275 degrees.
• 11 drain off fat.
• 12 let ham sit uncovered while you warm the honey.
• 13 pour honey over the ham, and cook uncovered for an hour at 300 degrees.
• 14 remove from oven and drain.
• 15 let sit until cool to touch, about 30 minutes.
• 16 the ham top should be a little sticky.
• 17 if not it's ok.
• 18 when cool, using your hands, pack brown sugar all over the top and sides of ham.
• 19 pushing the sugar in the cut slices.
• 20 push tooth picks through the cherries.
• 21 place pineapple rings on top of ham using toothpick with cherries to hold in place.
• 22 insert meat thermometer.
• 23 mix together pineapple juice and cherry juice.
• 24 divide.
• 25 pour half of mixture in bottom of pan.
• 26 cover, and bake for 2 hours at 350 degrees.
• 27 check doneness.
• 28 usually at this point the ham is usually done.
• 29 last 30 minutes, uncover and pour remainder of pineapple juice on top.