Sweet Sticky Ham Glaze
"This glaze came about when the ham my friend bought for Easter dinner didn't have the typical glaze packet included. Together we hit on this concoction that everyone at dinner thought was yummy! We wanted to make enough glaze that we could serve it at the table for individual slices - this way, the person who gets the end of the ham doesn't get all of the glaze and if you get a regular slice you only get a little on the outside. Everyone is able to have glaze with their ham."
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
2 cups
- Serves:
- 8-10
ingredients
- 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple slices, juice reserved
- 1 cup pineapple juice (use juice from slices and add enough water to equal 1 Cup)
- 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 8 tablespoons butter (1 stick)
- 1⁄2 cup molasses
- 4 -6 gingersnap cookies (crushed very fine, I use Anna's from Ikea)
- 1⁄2 cup cornstarch
- 1⁄2 cup cold water
directions
- Set aside Pineapple Slices.
- Mix pineapple juice, brown sugar, butter, and molasses, in saucepan and heat until bubbly stirring continuously. Continue cooking for 10 minutes (the mixture will thicken only slightly). Then add the crushed cookies.
- Continue simmering and stirring while the mixture reduces by about 1/3. This will take about 15 minutes more.
- If you still desire a thicker sauce, mix cornstarch and water to make a slurry.
- Continue stirring the boiling sugar/juice mixture while adding slurry. You may not need to add all of the slurry, depending upon how thick you like the glaze.
- Cook for five minutes longer. The glaze should be quite thick and will easily coat the back of a spoon.
- 30 minutes before ham is finished cooking, use toothpicks to attach slices of pineapple all over outside of ham.
- Cook ham for an additional 30 minutes.
- Pour half of glaze over ham and pineapple slices.
- Reserve additional glaze for individual servings.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
NewNerdMom
Salt Lake City, Utah
Although the kind of cooking I was raised on and most enjoy would best be described as down-home, Southern comfort food, that is not my history in the the least. My mother came from Wyoming rather than the deep south, but she is a wonderful cook and an expert at comfort food.? We always had someone extra at our dinner table as a kid, so I learned how to cook for a crowd.? My husband and two kids tease me about cooking for the 5th regiment, but they all seem to enjoy it. Although I love to cook, I also love to perform in and teach Theatre. That means there are many times when my two passions don't allow enough time for one another.? It's rather difficult to be in the classroom all day teaching theatre, have rehearsals after school, and often be at a theatre by 6:30 for a performance call and still create the kind of meals I truly enjoy cooking. Until I can find a way to marry these two passions, I enjoy collecting and creating recipes and trying them out on my family and friends.
