How To Cook A Ham In The Oven With Pineapple And Cherries
Cook for 1 hour.
How to cook a ham in the oven with pineapple and cherries. Use about 20 skewers for a 5 pound ham. Use whole cloves and toothpicks to secure pineapple slices to ham use toothpicks to secure cherries to center of each pineapple ring. Place the pineapples onto the top of the ham and secure with toothpicks.
While ham is baking you can make your glaze and have it ready to go. Place the ham in a preheated 350 degree oven. Start by using a sharp knife to score the surface of the ham in a diamond pattern.
Stud the surface of the ham with the cherry pineapple skewers and return it to the oven. Drain the juice from the pineapple rings into a medium bowl and stir in the brown sugar and lemon lime soda. Arrange pineapple slices and cherries on ham.
Drain pineapple reserving 1 4 cup of the juice. Cut 6 1 2 inch slits in the top of the bag. Seal the bag tightly using the tie provided in the box.
Place ham on a greased rack in a large baking dish lined with foil see tip in general information tab brush the ham fat a few times to evenly coat with glaze. Place ham in a roasting pan. Insert cloves into diamonds.
Place a maraschino cherry inside each pineapple slice and secure it using a toothpick. Tie the end of the bag closed with the ties provided place in a large roasting pan and cut a few small slits in the top of the oven bag. Cover with foil and bake for one hour.