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Baked Ham

By Leah Chase

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Editor's note: The recipe and introductory text below are excerpted from The Dooky Chase Cookbook by Leah Chase and are part of our story on Mardi Gras.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 12 servings

Ingredients

8- to 10-lb. boneless cooked ham
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup yellow mustard
1 tsp. ground cloves
2 cups pineapple juice
1 8-oz. bottle of cola
1 can cherry pie filling
Pineapple slices
Maraschino cherries

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Remove all wrappings from ham — any strings or paper also. Stick ham several times with metal skewer or long fork. This is to let the sauce penetrate the ham. Place ham in a deep roasting pan.

    Step 2

    Mix sugar, mustard, and cloves together. Rub over entire ham. Pour juice and cola in pan around ham. Place in oven and bake for 35 minutes at 350°F. Baste ham with juice. With a pastry brush, brush pie filling over ham. Let cook for 10 minutes. Repeat the basting until all the pie filling is used. Raise oven temperature to 375°F and let glaze cook well. Garnish baked ham with pineapple slices and Maraschino cherries.

Reprinted with permission from The Dooky Chase Cookbook © 1990, 2023, by Leah Chase. Published by Pelican Publishing Company, an imprint of Arcadia Publishing. Buy the full book at Amazon or Bookshop.
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