If you need a holiday ham recipe this simple 4 ingredient Crock-Pot Brown Sugar Picnic Ham is just the ticket! The picnic ham cut comes out nice and tender with just a touch of sweetness from brown sugar and pineapple. Serve for Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter or any day you want a delicious ham for dinner!
Crock-Pot Brown Sugar Picnic Ham
I have never made Picnic Ham, it was actually quite by accident, I was planning on a completely different cut of ham but accidentally purchased this cut instead, but quite happy I got this one as it was one of the most moist tender cuts of ham I’ve ever purchased!
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| Prep Time | 15minutes |
| Cook Time | 480minutes |
- 5 pounds Cured Picnic Ham bone-in
- 3/4 cup Pineapple Juice , plus 2 tablespoons
- 2 cups Brown Sugar light or dark, divided
- 12 whole Cloves
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- Before starting this recipe make sure your bone in ham will fit your crock-pot!
- Spray Crock-Pot with Pam or similar.
- Pour the ¾ths cup of pineapple juice into bottom of crock-pot.
- Add the 1½ cup of Brown Sugar to the pineapple juice and mix carefully.
- With the fat side down place in your crock-pot.
- Score the ham slightly.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of pineapple juice carefully over the ham, just to moisten.
- Rub ½ cup brown sugar slowly into ham.
- Add a dozen cloves into ham.
- Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours.
- You may carefully baste one time in the middle of cooking time quickly.
- Remove cloves before eating.
Be sure to check the temperature before eating and if you pick a larger ham you may need to cook a bit longer. I used a 7 quart crock-pot for my picnic ham and it “barely” was tall enough. With it being a bone in, you don’t have much wiggle room!
I did this and it turned out Perfect!! Even had room to stick in sweet potato halves.
That is such a good idea with the Sweet Potatoes!
I have a farm fresh picnic ham that has not been smoked. Do you think this will still work for that?
Hi Sara, we have not tested this recipe with an unsmoked/cured picnic ham. I am sure it would be fine but I don’t think it will taste the same as a smoked and cured ham would.
My family and I loved this recipe. It was so easy and the end product was great! My family could nothing but go on about how great it tasted. This is a keeper recipe. Thank you so much.
Thanks Deborah for your kind words. I am so glad to hear how much your family enjoyed this recipe for Brown Sugar Picnic Ham!