Gramie Ham Recipe

Blog post #368 of 365

With the holidays coming up I a giving up a family tradition. Although I might have given this one up sometime earlier.
My mom, before she became a diabetic, made a ham every Easter and sometimes for Thanksgiving. She made it by taste and frankly should never do that again because it could bring on a diabetic coma. After much trial and error I have a decent replica of Gramie ham. It is a tangy sweet ham.

What you'll need:
Baking dish with a lid or use foil, measuring cup, spoon
pre-sliced ham
1/2 cup frozen orange juice concentrate thawed
1/2 honey
1/2 spicy brown mustard
about 1 liter ginger ale (not diet)

What you'll do:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix honey, oj, and mustard in a small bowl until well blended. In a baking dish (I use and 9X9 but it depends on how much ham you are making, more ham will require more mixture mentioned prior) layer your ham spooning a little of the mustard/oj/honey mixture between each layer. Pour any remaining mixture over the top. Pour ginger ale over the prepared ham. (size of the pan, amount of ham will all be a factor in how much ginger ale you will use. Cover your baking dish with foil or a lid. Put it in the oven and bake covered for an hour. Serve hot.

We always had this with a big feast usually with some other meats involved. However my son loved this dish. I usually serve it with rice and vegetables on the side.