Grandma'S Ham - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (12 pound) whole ham
1 liter ginger ale (such as Vernors(R))
1 cup brown sugar
1 (8 ounce) can pineapple slices, drained, reserve juice
toothpicks
1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Place ham in a roasting pan.
Pour ginger ale into the roasting pan. Rub brown sugar over the ham. Attach pineapple slices to outside of ham with toothpicks. Secure a cherry into the middle of each pineapple slice again using toothpicks. Pour reserved pineapple juice into pan with ginger ale. Tent aluminum foil over the ham.
Bake ham in preheated oven for 4 hours. Remove aluminum foil and continue baking another 30 minutes.