I stole this recipe for Moist Spiral Cut Ham with Pineapple Honey Glaze from a website called food.com who stole it from NewNerdMom. Spiral cut ham is flavored with a sweet glaze for this holiday dish. Spices including cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg are added to a saucepan. Canned pineapple slices in juice are added to the spices with honey. Everything cooks in the saucepan to make a sweet glaze and spread on the ham several times during baking. Juices from the ham combine with the glaze drippings to help baste the ham. This glaze makes any ham taste extra special.
““Eternity is a ham and two people” (also given as “Eternity is two people and a ham”) is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge-far more than two people could finish.” – Irma Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking (see more quotes in the Quotes tab)
Preheat oven to 250 F. Adjust rack to lowest position. Place bone-in ham (8-12 lbs) inside a large oven bag making sure the cut side is at the bottom of the bag. Gather bag tightly around ham and tie. Place in large roasting pan. Cut 4 small slits in top of bag with knife.
Bake ham until internal temperature reaches 100 degrees, approximately 90 minutes or 10 minutes per pound. During the last minutes of ham cooking time, combine 1 cup sugar, ½ cup brown sugar, ½ tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp cloves, ½ tsp allspice, ½ tsp nutmeg, ½ tsp paprika and ¼ tsp ginger in a small saucepan.
Once combined add ⅓ cup pineapple juice and ¼ cup honey and cook over medium heat stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
Remove ham from oven. Untie oven bag and roll down sides. Any juices inside bag you want to keep within bag. Increase heat in oven to 350 F. Starting at the bottom cut portion of the ham, hang pineapple slices from 1 (20 oz) can on ham with toothpicks.
Slowly pour ¼ of the glaze over ham. Return to oven for 10 minutes. Repeat twice, for a total of 3 glazing times for 30 minutes total.
After final glazing, remove ham from oven. Remove pineapple slices to separate bowl for serving. You can add the liquid on the bottom of the bag to the leftover glaze to pour over slices or into a gravy boat for serving.
Moist Spiral Cut Ham with Pineapple Honey Glaze
Spiral cut ham is flavored with a sweet glaze for this holiday dish. Spices including cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg are added to a saucepan. Canned pineapple slices in juice are added to the spices with honey. Everything cooks in the saucepan to make a sweet glaze and spread on the ham several times during baking. Juices from the ham combine with the glaze drippings to help baste the ham. This glaze makes any ham taste extra special.
Ingredients
Ham
- 1 spiral cut ham bone in (8-12 lbs)
- 1 large oven cooking bag
Glaze
- 1 20 oz can sliced pineapple, juices reserved
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground allspice
- ½ tsp fresh ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp paprika
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ⅓ cup pineapple juice
- ¼ cup honey
Instructions
Ham
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Thaw ham in a large container with hot tap water for 45 minutes, empty water and refill with hot tap water for another 45 minutes. This allows the internal temperature of ham to rise before placing in oven.
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Preheat oven to 250 F. Adjust rack to lowest position.
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Remove ham from water. Place ham inside a large oven bag making sure the cut side is at the bottom of the bag. Gather bag tightly around ham and tie. Place in large roasting pan. Cut 4 small slits in top of bag with knife.
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Bake ham until internal temperature reaches 100 degrees, approximately 90 minutes or 10 minutes per pound.
Glaze
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During the last minutes of ham cooking time, combine sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, paprika and ginger in a small saucepan. Once combined add pineapple juice and honey and cook over medium heat stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Consistency should allow you to pour. If not, add more pineapple juice.
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Remove ham from oven. Untie oven bag and roll down sides. Any juices inside bag you want to keep within bag. Increase heat in oven to 350 F.
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Starting at the bottom cut portion of the ham, hang pineapple slices on ham with toothpicks.
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Slowly pour ¼ of the glaze over ham. Return to oven for 10 minutes. Repeat twice, for a total of 3 glazing times for 30 minutes total. You will have extra glaze leftover for serving.
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After final glazing, remove ham from oven. Remove pineapple slices to separate bowl for serving. You can add the liquid on the bottom of the bag to the leftover glaze to pour over slices or into a gravy boat for serving.
Recipe Notes
You can use all of the juice from the pineapple can. I also baste the ham before I add each glaze layer.