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Recipe to Make a Ham Better Than Those of Westphalia, According to Ude

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 92,116 recipes mention both. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Recipe to Make a Ham Better Than Those of Westphalia, According to Ude

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Ham + vinegartop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  4. Vinegar + flourtop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,652 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Ham + flourtop 33% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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