Since Easter is right around the corner, and Jews are secretly cringing a little bit, this is a perfect recipe to make on Easter Sunday. It also gives you a reason to skip those boring church services where they’d just feed you lies about my people. We did not kill Christ! Well.. we may have watched… Anyway, that’s all behind us now and to show how sorry we are, some of us are eating pork.
- 1 15 oz can pineapple rings
- 1 4 ounce jar maraschino cherries
- Extra pineapple juice
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ground cloves to taste
- 1 Tbs dijon mustard optional
- Whole cloves optional
- Toothpicks
- Bone in picnic ham.. not smoked.
Mix half the juice from the jar of cherries with the juice from the entire can of pineapples.. add mustard and cloves.. brown sugar.. more pineapple juice if needed.. cook on the stove, thicken with corn starch if needed
Bake the ham as it is, fat side up.. no seasoning or anything but you can stick whole cloves all over it if you want just keep in mind you have to take them back out before serving.
Do the following during the last 45 minutes of baking: Quickly secure cherries to ham using toothpicks.. place pineapple rings around each cherry. Pour glaze over garnished ham and finish baking for at least 30 minutes..
Bone in ham is about 17 minutes per pound…
You can serve extra glaze and pineapple rings on the side.. my mom has made this recipe for nearly 40 years and I can’t find it anywhere else that I’ve looked. It’s truly wonderful though.
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