My Aunt’s Pineapple Glaze for Easter Baked Ham
My Aunt’s Pineapple Glaze
used as a dipping sauce
for The Easter Dinner Baked Ham.
Just the right mix of sweet and tart
to enhance the meat.
⇓ Click down to the Pineapple Glaze Recipe ⇓
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Easter Baked Ham
I’m not sure, but I think my mom must have stayed up most of the night before Easter Sunday.
Because when we came yawning down the stairs for breakfast,
the smell of baked ham greeted us halfway down.
She had the ham out of the oven
so she could carve it (or pull the bone out and let the rest of the meat fall apart,
that’s how tender it was) and forget about it till lunch time.
I’m not going to pretend to know how to bake a ham like that.
I can’t bake a spiral sliced ham and I can’t get honey-baked ham as tender as hers was.
I just can’t do ham, the way my mother can (could), Sam I am.
(And don’t say anything about Dr. Seuss. It still happens on Mulberry Street for me.)
So if you’re looking for an Easter Baked Ham recipe, it’s not here.
I will share one awesome tip for baking a bone in ham:
Pour a can of coke into the roaster for baking. It gives it that
old-fashioned dark ham look
that so many people associate with baked ham. And tastes so good.
My Aunt’s Pineapple Glaze
Now we’re getting to the recipe.
Well, that’s how bloggers do it right? They make you read about your mom
and grandma and aunts and sisters and cousins
who all cook divinely
before they give you the recipe.
That, my dear reader, is half the fun of cooking, anyway.
The stories.
If a recipe doesn’t have a story it isn’t as much fun to make and doesn’t taste half as good.
I don’t know which “Aunt” gave me this recipe.
The best part is, it works well with your coke-infused baked ham,
because you serve this glaze at the dinner table with the sliced (chunked) ham.
Pineapple Glaze for Easter Baked Ham
Equipment
- Small Saucepan
Ingredients
- 16 oz. crushed pineapple, undrained
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice, optional
- 1 tbsp. corn starch
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. dijon mustard
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in cold saucepan. We're not huge mustard fans, so if you love it, add up to 3 tsps. Also, double the lemon juice for taste, if you want more tartness.
- Whisk all together until smooth and cornstarch is dissolved.
- Heat till hot, thick and bubbly.
- Serve hot with sliced baked ham as a dipping sauce.
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Note: The perfect small saucepan is wide and shallow. Because, as my mother taught me, you save electricity by covering the whole element with your pot. That way no heat escapes uselessly into the air around the pot.
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Wishing all of you dear readers
a most blessed Easter.
Christ is risen!