Sydney's Easy Baked Ham

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 (8 lb) lamb butt (shank cut will also work)
• 1 (16 ounce) can pineapple rings
• 1 (12 ounce) bottle beer (i use j.w. dundees honey brown beer)
• 15 -20 whole cloves

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350*.
• 2 remove ham from packaging, reserving any juices in the packaging.
• 3 place ham in baking dish. i use a 9 x 13 pyrex pan usually.
• 4 pour juices from packaging into pan.
• 5 open pineapple and pour juice over the ham.
• 6 lightly score the skin of the ham in a diamond pattern.
• 7 using the cloves as "picks" place the pinepple rings on the ham. if you dont have or dont care to use the cloves, toothpicks broken in half will also work.
• 8 open the beer and pour that over the ham.
• 9 make a tent with foil over the ham, and place in oven.
• 10 bake for 2 - 2.5 hours, or until heated through <depending on size of ham> lifting foil and basting every 10 - 15 minutes with pan juices.
• 11 remove ham from oven and remove pineapple and cloves. baste again and start carving. i will also baste the meat on the platter with a little bit of the ham liquor.