Ginger Ale Glazed Ham For Easter Dinner Food

GINGER ALE BAKED HAM

Steps:

• Place ham in baking dish or roasting pan.
• Score ham diagonally both ways about 1/8" in.
• Pour ginger ale over top.
• Pat brown sugar all over top and sides of ham.
• Bake according to ham package directions.
• (Usually 20 minutes per pound at 325 degrees).
• Serve with Potato Salad or Scalloped Potatoes (see my other recipes).

GINGER ALE HAM GLAZE FOR EASTER DINNER

Steps:

• 1. These are the main ingredients to make the Ham glaze.
• 2. Add the ginger ale, ground mustard cloves, and brown sugar to a medium sauce pan. Stir to blend.
• 3. Place over medium heat and bring to a boil, whisking as you go. Do not leave sauce pan idle, or it can quickly boil over. Continue to stir as glaze will thicken in just a few minutes about 5 to 10 minutes.
• 4. When glaze becomes syrupy remove from heat and add butter, then stir till butter melts, then brush glaze over ham, return ham to oven, and bake for 10 minutes, repeat steps for 2 additional times till ham is completely glazed and glistens from the glaze. Allow to cool separate and arrange slices on serving platter.
• 5. Serve extra sauce as desired to go with ham slices.

GINGER ALE GLAZED HAM FOR EASTER DINNER

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. But follow the directions for the ham that you have purchased.
• 2. I had to remove the wrapping and the disk covering the bone, and then wrap the ham tightly in aluminum foil. Then place in a large pan with a 2 inch side. No water was needed. Place ham in middle rack and bake for 13 -15 minutes per pound. My ham needed 2 1/2 hours baking time.
• 3. GLAZE RECIPE: Add the ginger ale, ground mustard, brown sugar & cloves to a medium sauce pan, then stir to blend. Place over medium high heat and bring to a boil, whisking as you go. Do not leave sauce pan unattended or it can quickly boil over. Continue to stir as glaze will thicken in just a few minutes about 5 to 10 minutes. When glaze becomes syrupy remove from heat and add butter, then stir till butter melts. Then brush glaze over ham on all sides.
• 4. I baked the ham for 2 hours, then made the glaze while the ham was baking, removed the ham after the 2 hours has elapsed, then glazed the ham on all sides, then returned it to the oven. Then repeated this step 2 additional times for a total of 30 minutes. There was juice that accumulated in the bottom of the pan from the ham.
• 5. I lined a platter with fresh greens, and added some decorative fruit that I had cut, and placed a cherry in the middle of each piece of citrus fruit , added a few green & red Grapes that I drizzled with Agave nectar and dusted with powdered sugar.
• 6. Added the ham & carefully separated the slices & arranged them on the tray in an attractive manner.

GINGER RUM-GLAZED HAM

Steps:

• If the ham comes with the skin still attached, remove most of it with a sharp knife, leaving a layer of fat and a collar of skin around the shank bone. Trim the fat, leaving a layer about 1/3 inch thick, and score the layer remaining into diamonds. Bake the ham on a rack in a roasting pan in a preheated 350°F. oven for 55 minutes. In a blender blend together the ginger, the brown sugar, and the rum, spoon the glaze over the ham, spreading it, and bake the ham for 30 to 35 minutes more, or until the glaze is brown and bubbly. Transfer the ham to a platter, garnish the platter with the parsley, and let the ham stand for 15 minutes before carving.

GRANDMA'S HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Place ham in a roasting pan.
• 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.
• Bake ham in preheated oven for 4 hours. Remove aluminum foil and continue baking another 30 minutes.

GINGER ALE GLAZED HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Place ham on a rack in a roasting pan.
• In a saucepan combine wine, mustard, molasses, and cayenne pepper. Bring to simmering. Simmer, uncovered for 6 minutes.
• Stir in ginger ale.
• Pour glaze over ham.
• Bake 1 hour (I usually cover loosely with foil, afraid of drying it out).
• Increase oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Bake 1 hour more (remove foil covering), basting ham every 15 minutes.
• Brush ham with honey.
• Bake 15 minutes more.
• Slice and serve.

GINGER ALE GLAZED HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place ham into a roasting pan.
• In a medium saucepan, combine wine, mustard, molasses, and cayenne pepper. Simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add the ginger ale and stir.
• Pour the glaze over the ham and bake for 1.5 hours. Increase heat to 325 degrees and bake for an additional hour. Basting every fifteen minutes.
• Brush with honey and bake an additional 30 minutes, basting every fifteen minutes, until ham is well glazed.
• Remove from oven and let stand for ten minutes. Slice and serve.

GINGER ALE - HONEY MUSTARD GLAZED HAM

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
• 2. I slow cooked an 8 1/2 lb ham in a shallow roasting pan for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. I added just a cup of ginger ale to the shallow pan and tented the ham with foil.
• 3. Prepare glaze: 30 minutes before ham is done cooking, make your glaze in a separate bowl, 3/4 cup of prepared mustard (French's, dijon... whatever your taste), 1/2 cup of honey and a 1/2 cup of light brown sugar.
• 4. Take ham out of the oven and score the top and smother with glaze. Put back in the oven for at least 10 minutes and add more glaze if desired. Or, what I did was spoon the ginger ale juices back over the glazed ham. Let cook for another 10 minutes and should be ready to serve.
• 5. As it shows in the picture, I made a side of garlic sour cream mashed potatoes and peas simmered in the ginger ale juice from the ham.