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Bacon and Ham for Broiling

A simple dish of sliced ham served on thin toast, cooked by broiling or sautéing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,475 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Bacon and Ham for Broiling

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the ham

  1. Preheat your grill or broiler.

  2. Place a slice of ham on the grill.

  3. Cook for about 5 minutes, turning 3-4 times until done.

  4. For sautéing, melt a little butter in a pan, add the ham, and sauté gently, turning often.

Serve

  1. Serve the ham on very thin toast.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ham + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Ham
Provides the main savoury meat flavour and is cooked until done.
Butter
Adds fat for sautéing, helping the ham brown and carry flavour.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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