It doesn’t need to be Christmas to enjoy this spin on a retro classic.
What you need:
A bottle of Bluey Zarzov’s Strawberry Reaper
An appropriately large bone-in leg ham with thin rind (7kgs or so for this recipe)
5 x 440g tinned sliced pineapple – and save the juice
A pack of glace cherries
80ml natural honey
1/3 cup brown sugar
A teaspoon of cinnamon
Half a teaspoon of nutmeg
Optional cloves if you wanna be all fancy or no other use for cloves other than numbing a toothache or – toothpicks
A deep roasting pan good enough for basting
Step 1
Preheat your oven to 180C. Soak your tootpicks in water so they are less likely to char to oblivion. Get your ham on a chopping board and carefully slice the rind diagonally one way, then the other to make 2cm diamond cuts deep enough to hit the meat. Place some baking paper down in the roasting pan, bung the ham on top and whack it in the oven for a little over an hour.
Step 2
Place the sugar, honey, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/3 of the pineapple juice into a saucepan and heat it up till the sugar and honey dissolves, then add in a good dash (30-50ml) of Strawberry Reaper. Add more hotsauce for more heat and stir it all together but don’t boil it.
Step 4
Take the ham out of the oven and paintit with the glaze. Get your pineapple slices and peg them evenly around the ham with a toothpick and/or cloves and then take a cherry and stab it into the pinapple hole with another toothpick. Paint all that with more glaze until it is used up. Add the rest of the pinapple juice to the bottom of the roasting pan so the ham is sitting it it. Reduce the oven temperature to 90C and pop the ham back in for another 10 minutes.
Step 5
Baste the ham completely with the glaze at the bottom of the pan every 10 or 15 minutes. Once your ham is browned and the pineapple golden it is ready to take out to rest for 15 minutes.
Show it off as the centrepiece for your Christmas spread. Answer the phone and tell the 70’s that not only are you not giving their recipe back, but you also stole their Pavlova recipe too and put Strawberry Reaper on it to make it better.
