Grandmas Ham Recipe
- 1 (12 pound) whole ham
- 1 liter ginger ale (such as Vernors®)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple slices, drained, reserve juice
- toothpicks
- 1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
- 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.