Baked Chinese Ham is so delicious, The recipe was quick an d easy and tasted fantastic. Serve for your family and friends, from  ABS-CBN Food  Entertainmnet recipe by Gina Navarro. 

Ingredients 

1 whole Chinese bone-in ham,

(for easy handling, remove bone

that’s sticking out from the ham

either with a regular saw or have a

butcher saw it off with an electric slicer)

1 bottle beer (330 ml)

1 1/2 cups unsweetened pineapple juice

1/2 cup packed brown sugar, plus

about 2 tablespoons, for topping

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 piece clove

2 tablespoons cornstarch

dissolved in 3 tablespoons water (slurry)

1/2 cup orange marmalade

Method 

Preheat oven to 325°F

Blanch the ham in hot water and scrub off impurities. Rinse ham very well. Place ham in a deep roasting pan. In a small bowl, combine beer, pineapple juice, sugar, cinnamon and clove. 

Pour over ham. Put ham in the oven, cover with foil and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, basting th drippings every 15 minutes.

After 1 1/2 hours, remove ham from oven. Score surface of ham.* Add brown sugar on top and bake for another 15 minutes or until sugar caramelizes. 

Remove ham from  pan and transfer to a serving platter. Reserve drippings

Make a syrup by pouring drippings into a saucepan. Add cornstarch slurry. Heat over low fire, stirring constantly until thick and syrupy. 

Glaze ham with orange marmalade, Serve with the syrup.

Notes 

Using a shaip knife, make a shallow diarrnd cut pattern on the surface of the ham wth fat.