Baked Ham Recipes is Making Coke Ham and a Virginia Ham Recipe

This is one of many baked ham recipes which I have collected over the years. If you ask family and friends how to cook a ham, each person will give you a different answer. There are many ham recipes of how to bake a ham using many different ingredients. This is one of the holiday ham recipes musing Coco-Cola and it is very good.

COCO-COLA HAM

• 12 to 15 Pound boneless ham


• 1 ½ Cups brown sugar


• 2 Teaspoons dry mustard


• ½ Cup fine bread crumbs


• 12 Ounces Coco-Cola


• Cloves

Preheat oven to 400F degrees.

Cook ham according to package directions until it reaches an internal temperature of 160F degrees (for a cook-before-eating ham) on a meat thermometer. On a ready-to-eat ham cook to a temperature of 140F degrees.

Pull the skin off and cover the top of ham with a mixture of the brown sugar, mustard and bread crumbs. Score the ham in diamond shapes and stud it with cloves. Pour the Cocoa-Cola around the ham, cover and bake about 35 minutes, basting frequently with the liquid.

The following is one of the ham recipes for a Virginia ham. Follow the directions on the ham or on (COOKING HAM INSTRUCTIONS) in preparing the Virginia ham prior to baking.

BAKED VIRGINIA HAM

• 10-12 Pound Virginia ham


• Whole cloves


• 1 Cup dark brown sugar firmly packed


• 1 Teaspoon dry mustard


• 3 Tablespoons pineapple juice


• 1 Tablespoon cider vinegar

Preheat oven to 325F degrees.

After simmering the ham and letting it cool, cut fat into a diamond pattern. Do not cut into the ham. Insert a clove into each diamond. Place ham on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Baked uncovered for 2 ½ hours.

Combine the sugar, dry mustard, pineapple juice and vinegar. Spread mixture over the ham. Bake 15 minutes longer or until internal temperature is 155F degrees. (Test temperature with thermometer away from the bone.)

Try Other Great Ham Recipes

• Ham and beans


• Ham glaze recipes


• Ham leftovers


• How to cook ham steak

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