Baked Ham with Syrup

Name: Baked Ham with Syrup (Fu kuei huo t’ui)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 cup brown sugar; 1 cup ground pork fat; 2 pounds Chinese ham; 20 slices bread (half slice); 4 pounds clay; 4 pieces lotus leaves or banana leaves; 4 pieces lotus leaves or banana leaves; 1 sheet cellophane paper; ¼ teaspoon Kuei-hua jam (optional)

Fu kuei huo t’ui

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2 pounds Chinese ham
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup

Asia
Taiwan
Hunan
Main course

Method

Soak the whole piece of ham in hot water for about half hour. Clean and place ham into large bowl. Cover with water and steam for 1 hour.
When the ham cools, discard skin, and cut into 1” wide by 2” long by ⅛” thick slices.
Place ham slices in the middle of the cellophane paper, with a corner facing you. Mix the ground pork fat with Kuei-hua jam and s