Coca Cola Basted Ham Food

COLA BASTED HAM

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 °F.
• Place ham in a shallow roasting pan. Baste the ham with cola. With toothpicks, stick some pineapple rings on the ham, about 4 or 5 rings. Sprinkle some brown sugar on the rings. With toothpicks, place a cherry in each pineapple ring hole and then stick some cloves in the rings. Cover it with foil. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes per pound of ham, or until the ham reaches an internal temperature of 140 °F. Baste with cola about every 30 minutes during cooking.

COCA COLA BASTED HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325℉ (160℃). Place ham, fat side down, in a shallow baking pan. Pour coke into pan until it is ½-inch deep. Bake 2 to 3 hours, or until ham can be easily pierced with a fork, basting with the Coca-Cola every 15 to 20 minutes. (Center of ham will read 140 degrees F on a meat thermometer when properly cooked.) Remove ham from the pan and cool. Cut away rind and fat with a sharp knife. Combine sugar, mustards, bread crumbs, and enough Coke to form a thick paste. Place ham on roasting rack in pan and pat all over with the paste. Add remaining coke to the bottom of the pan. Increase the temperature to 375℉ (190℃) F and bake the ham 45 minutes longer, basting every 20 to 15 minutes until sugar-mustard paste has melted to a dark glaze. Let stand at room temperature 30 minutes before slicing.

COLA-GLAZED HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a 9x13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil.
• Place brown sugar in a bowl; whisk in just enough cola to dissolve sugar and form a thick glaze. Place ham in baking dish and pour glaze over ham. Add remaining cola to bottom of baking dish.
• Bake ham in the preheated oven, basting with the glaze occasionally, for 2 hours.
• Transfer ham to a serving platter; tent with foil for up to 30 minutes before serving.

COLA BAKED HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
• Remove any visible excess fat from ham.
• Place the ham in a large turkey roasting oven bag and place in a baking dish.
• Pour cola over ham, remove as much air as possible and seal bag.
• Prick a few holes in bag to let steam escape and bake for 4 to 5 hours.
• Pour off excess juice and slice.

MARTHA STEWART COCA COLA HAM (ADAPTED FOR LAZY PEOPLE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Score the ham crosswise and lengthwise, forming a crosshatch/square-cut patter about 1/4 inches deep and 1 inch apart. Place a clove in the intersection of each square.
• Place ham in an aluminum roasting pan that you have placed on a baking/cookie sheet (for stability).
• Load the ham with sugar. Use the whole pack and just glom it on. Some sugar will fall off, but keep on packing.
• Bake until sugar just begins to melt (20-30 min).
• Remove ham, pour Coca-Cola all over the ham, and baste the ham with the sugar mixture in the bottom of the pan.
• Bake for another 20 minutes.
• Combine 1 cup of pineapple juice and wine, and baste the ham.
• Bake the ham for about 15 minutes per pound, basting every 20 minutes with the juices.
• During the last 20 minutes, decorate ham with pineapple rings. Use toothpicks to hold the rings in place, and put a cherry in the center of each ring with a toothpick.
• Prior to serving, remove all toothpicks.
• The extremely lazy way:.
• Pack the brown sugar on the ham.
• Pour the Coke and Wine mixture liberally on the ham.
• Forget about the pineapples and cherries, unless you really want pineapple, in which case, stick them randomly on the ham.
• Stuff it in the oven and baste every 20 minutes.
• Cover with aluminium foil after the first basting.
• Use a meat thermometer to tell when it's done, and serve.