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BBQ Sauce Glazed Pineapple Ham Picks

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 360 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

36 picks
Prep10 min
Cook10 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. Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Peel the pineapple half, cut away the core, and cut the flesh into bite-size chunks about 3/4 inch thick.

  2. Cut the cooked ham slab into pieces roughly the same size as the pineapple chunks.

  3. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, stir the Musselman's Apple Butter and BBQ sauce together until warm and smooth, about 3 minutes.

  4. Thread one piece of ham and one piece of pineapple onto each wood toothpick, alternating as you go.

  5. Arrange the picks on a rimmed baking sheet and spoon about half of the warm glaze over them.

  6. Bake for 5 minutes, then spoon the remaining glaze over the picks and bake 4 to 5 minutes more, until the ham is hot and the glaze is bubbling.

  7. Let the picks cool for 1 minute before serving warm.

By aspicyperspective. 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. Sauce + pineappletop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Apple + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Apple + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  4. Butter + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,475 recipes

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

  5. Butter + saucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,317 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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