Root Beer Ham

I'm partial to scalloped or au gratin potatoes, or macaroni and cheese to go along with the ham. For a green vegetable, how about braised collards or cabbage, or a combination of the two. Some baked beans would also be nice.

I’ve been making cookbook author Martha Hall Foose’s recipe in her book “Screen Doors and Sweet Tea” for “Barq’s Root Beer-Glazed Ham” for years. The pages still stick together from making this too often. The kicker in the recipe is the glaze: root beer, ketchup, dark brown sugar, zest and juice of lemon and yellow mustard. It’s reason enough to get this wonderful book.

My mother always basted ham with Coca-Cola, and she always let me have what was left in the bottle. I've made ham basted with coke for many people who swear they don't like ham, only to take second and third portions! I heartily endorse this variation by Eric Kim.

If I ever see a spiral ham again it will be too soon

We do it up with my grandmother's baked beans, mac & cheese, Vermont brown bread and (this is crucial) Napa cabbage picnic salad: 2/3 c. slivered almonds, 8 c. Napa cabbage, sliced thinly, 12 oz snow peas, cut on the diagonal, 1 & 1/3 c. slivered radishes, 1 & 1/3 c. slivered green onion, 1 & 1/3 c. diced parsley. Dressing: 3T rice wine vinegar, 2T sugar, 2T soy sauce, 1 minced clove garlic, 1/2 t. sesame oil, 1/2 t. ground ginger, 1/4 t. cayenne, 1 c. mayo Awesome!!

Sure. Reduce the liquid. My wife says, "eternity is two people and a ham"

Could you make this with a bonless ham? (We are only 2 people and even a semi-boneless half ham is too big for us.)

This simple recipe looks like a winner, so I will make this for the holidays for sure- Thank you!

We have a pineapple bread pudding thing we have made for years to go with ham. Would also do broccoli of some sort. Scalloped potatoes would be wonderful, too! Maybe some lingonberry or cranberry sauce for some tang on the side?

Delicious exactly as written. I served it with garlic mashed potatoes and sauteed haricot verts. Total winner.

This was delicious! I had a small bone-in ham, under 4 pounds, so reduced the ingredient list by half. Loved it and will make it again with a larger ham. Yummy!

I believe the "cut side" refers to the exposed face of the ham, not the scoring as part of the recipe.

I would love to make this, however, where I live, the grocery stores are carrying only spiral-sliced hams, which I really don't like. They dry out so quickly, and you're always left with a center chunk around the bone that is difficult to deal with. Please bring back the traditional, semi-boneless or bone-in half ham - UNSLICED.

I like colcannon with ham - 6 russet potatoes, cooked and mashed with plenty of butter and cream, 1/2 head of cabbage, shredded and 1/2 large sweet onion cooked with lots of butter (I melt 1 cube of butter in a sauce pan and add the cabbage and onion and cook on low heat with the lid on the pan until veggies are tender and translucent). Mix the potatoes with the cabbage and serve - divine.

Sounds delicious. On the Canadian prairies this would be served with scalloped potatoes and curried peaches. Just tinned peaches tipped in a Pyrex dish and sprinkled lavishly with curry powder. Bake for 1/2 an hour at 350. Strange but good.