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Ham Bagels with Honey Mustard Cream Cheese

"This is a great twist on a sandwich; the honey blends well with everything and gives it a bit of a sweet taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and honey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 172 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 sandwiches
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Stir together the whipped cream cheese, Dijon mustard and honey in a small bowl until smooth and evenly colored.

  2. Toast the split bagel halves cut side up in a toaster or under a broiler until lightly golden, about 2 to 3 minutes.

  3. Spread the honey mustard cream cheese evenly over the cut side of each toasted bagel half.

  4. Layer the deli ham slices on the bottom halves of the bagels, folding them as needed so they fit.

  5. Close each sandwich with the top bagel halves and serve right away while the bagels are still warm.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Cream cheese + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  2. Mustard + hamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together747 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + bageltop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Mustard + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together919 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + bageltop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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