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Underwood Deviled Ham

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Underwood Deviled Ham

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the crusts from slices of fresh white bread.

  2. Spread Underwood Deviled Ham on the bread.

  3. For a sandwich, add chopped olives and mix well.

  4. Layer lettuce and mayonnaise on the bread with Deviled Ham.

  5. Add thin slices of chicken with mayonnaise on the bread.

  6. Spread Deviled Ham on toasted small rolls.

  7. Mix chopped dill pickle with Deviled Ham and spread on white or rye bread.

  8. Add chopped Spanish onion to Deviled Ham and serve on whole wheat bread.

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. Lettuce + dilltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Olive + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Lettuce + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,562 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, bread, olive, lettuce, chicken, onion, wheat):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, bread, olive, lettuce, chicken, onion, wheat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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