Easter Baked Ham

🧂 Ingredients

• 8 pound boneless precooked Ham
• 1/4 cup Whole Cloves
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 tsp ground mustard powder
• 1/2 tsp ground clove
• 20 ounce can Pineapple Slices

  drained, and reserve juice, pat slices dry with paper towel
• 1 can Ginger Ale

  12 ounce
• 10 maraschino cherries

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 Remove ham from wrapping it came in and discard it and the glaze packet that may
  come with it, making sure to check ham for any plastic pieces that may be stuck
  in or on ham, pat dry with paper towel
• 3 Combine brown sugar, ground clove, and mustard powder together in a small bowl.
  Add 1 teaspoon of ginger ale and mix in, the sugar should stick together when
  you pinch it but not dissolve, like wet sand
• 4 Place ham in roasting pan flattest side down, take brown sugar mixture, and
  press into the surface of the ham with your hands covering the entire exposed
  parts of ham creating a brown sugar
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• 5 Remove pineapple rings from the can, reserve juices, pat pineapple rings dry
  with a paper towel and place on the outside of the ham securing it by placing a
  maraschino cherry and a toothpick in the middle, continue this until all
  pineapple slices are
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• 6 Measure out 2 cups of ginger ale, if there isn't 2 cups in the can add pineapple
  juice to bring the liquid up to 2 cups, pour liquid into the bottom of the
  roasting pan.
• 7 Cover entire roasting pan tightly with aluminum foil. Place in preheated 325°
  oven for 1 1/2 hours.
• 8 Remove ham from oven, turn up oven to 450 degree, remove aluminum foil and place
  ham back in oven for 10 minutes to caramelize the sugar and pineapple on top of
  ham.
• 9 Slice and serve with juices on the side, in a gravy boat.

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