Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- SCORED
- Before glazing, the ham's surface is cut in a crosshatch of shallow diamonds, this is called scoring. It opens the rind so the glaze can sink in and caramelize deep into every groove.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CLOVES
- Whole cloves pressed into the scored ham do double duty: they perfume the meat as it roasts and act as tiny anchors, holding the glaze in place. Their warm, spicy scent is one of the most recognizable holiday kitchen aromas.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PINEAPPLE
- Canned pineapple rings baked onto a holiday ham became a mid-20th-century American classic, partly popularized by the Dole company's recipe campaigns after canned pineapple grew widely available in the 1920s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SPIRAL
- The spiral-cut ham, pre-sliced in one continuous ribbon around the bone, was patented by Harry Hoenselaar, who founded the HoneyBaked Ham Company in Detroit in 1957.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Holiday Ham: a free large-print word search
Holiday ham word search, free and large-print. Brown sugar, cloves, pineapple rings, and the proud platter carried to the table.
About The Holiday Ham
A glazed ham on a holiday table is one of the most welcoming sights in American home cooking, scored in diamonds, each intersection pressed with a whole clove, then lacquered to a deep mahogany with brown sugar, honey, and mustard. Pineapple rings, perhaps a maraschino cherry at every center, anchor the sweet-savory tradition that became a centerpiece of Christmas and Easter tables across the country. The carving fork and the good platter come out of the cabinet only a few times a year, and their appearance alone signals that the occasion is something worth gathering for.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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