Barbados / Caribbean Islands // Christmas Glazed Ham

Glazed ham is made across the Caribbean and served traditionally at Christmas. This is a Barbadian recipe.

Ingredients

½ cup brown sugar
1 cup pineapple juice
¼ cup whole cloves
1 tablespoon mustard
1 medium joint of smoked ham or unsmoked ham.
1 can of pineapple rings

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. Mix pineapple juice, brown sugar, and mustard in a bowl (pineapple juice glaze)
3. Place ham in a baking dish with cut side down and arrange pineapple rings onto the ham; secure with toothpicks if needed. Push cloves into ham and baste ham and pineapple rings with pineapple juice glaze.
4. Bake in the preheated oven until glaze has baked onto ham, 1 1/2 to 2 hours; baste with glaze every 30 minutes.
5. Optional during the cooking process the ham can be covered in foil. This method will lock in moisture.
6. Approximately 10 minutes before the end of the cooking process remove foil and allow ham to form a glaze before ending the cooking process.