Pineapple Juice and Brown Sugar Glazed Ham

Ingredients:

• About 5lb bone-in or bone-out fully cooked ham
• 1 can of pineapple slices (you will need all slices and half cup of juice)
• Half cup of brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons of dry mustard powder
• Whole cloves to taste (optional)

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients: take ham out of fridge 2 hours before you plan to cook it, let it warm up to room temperature before cooking, keep the original packaging on:

   

2. Preheat oven to 365F. Arrange ham sliced part to the bottom in a roasting pan; score fat on the top part till the knife meets the meat; stick cloves into the meat to your taste (some like less of them, some like more, just arrange them evenly across all ham piece, or skip them all together):

   

3. Arrange slices of pineapple on the top of the ham, secure them with wooden toothpicks:

   

4. Let’s prepare glaze: for that mix half cup of pineapple juice, half cup of brown sugar and 2 teaspoons of mustard powder:
   

   

   

   

   
   
5. Pour glaze over ham from all sides:

   

6. Put pan into preheated oven for 15-20 mins per each pound of the meat (use meat thermometer to verify readiness 140F). Baste meat with juices produced by cooking every 20-30 mins; if your oven has broiler mode – turn it on at the end for up to 5 mins to form the glaze and brown pineapples on the top:

   

7. Remove pan from the oven, move meat to a plate, remove toothpicks, set pineapples aside:

   

8. Slice and serve: