Mom's Holiday Ham
Ingredients
- 1 8- to 10-pound fully cooked, bone-in smoked ham
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 20-ounce can pineapple slices
- 1/2 cup yellow mustard
- 1 12-ounce can Coke Classic
- 1 10-ounce jar maraschino cherries
Instructions
Remove ham from refrigerator 30 minutes prior to cooking. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a shallow roasting pan with aluminum foil; place roasting rack on top. Place ham, flat side down, on rack. Pierce ham all over with an ice pick or metal skewer and score the top in a crisscross pattern (to allow glaze to penetrate the meat). In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, 1/2 cup pineapple juice (from the canned pineapple slices) and mustard. Rub the glaze over the ham and bake, covered, for 1 hour, basting every 15 minutes with the coke. Remove ham from oven and arrange pineapple slices and cherries on top, securing each with toothpicks. (Reserve extra pineapple slices and cherries for another use.) Return ham to oven and bake, uncovered, until ham is heated through and glaze is caramelized, about 30 minutes more. Transfer ham to a serving platter and let rest 20 minutes before slicing. Pour pan juices into a small bowl and serve alongside warm ham. Makes 8-10 servings.