Grandma's Ham

This recipe for roasting a whole ham uses pineapple, maraschino cherries, and ginger ale.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 4 hr 30 mins
• Total Time: 4 hr 40 mins
• Calories: 663 Calories

Ingredients

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

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

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

Step 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.

Step 3

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