Ham with Spiced Fruits
By Yankee Magazine|Dec 06 2006|
Ingredients
Ham With Spiced Fruits
Adapted from Betty Crocker’s Cookbook
2 bananas cut into fourths
1 8 oz can sliced peaches
1 8 oz can sliced pears
12 maraschino sherries, halved
1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 1/2 lb fully cooked boneless smoked ham
1 23 oz can sweet potatoes, drained and halved
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
Instructions
Mix the bananas, peaches and pears (both with syrup), cherries
And pumpkin pie spice. Remove 1/2 cup syrup from the fruit mixture
And reserve. Refrigerate fruit mixture. Place the ham in an ungreased baking
dish. Arrange sweet potatoes around the ham. Mix brown sugar, reserved fruit
syrup and the mustard and pour over ham and potatoes. Cook uncovered in 350*
oven for 30 minutes – occasionally spooning the sauce onto the ham and
potatoes.
Drain fruit mixture and arrange around and on top of ham. Cook
Uncovered an additional 15 minutes.
Serves 6.
