Name: Boiled Ham
Ingredients: 2 cups boiling water; 1 cup of cream; 2 cup of vinegar; two rabbits cut in pieces; vinegar

Why it works: Cream and rabbit work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 409 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Boiled Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Simmer for 4 hours in water enough to cover, to which has been added ½ cup of vinegar. When cooked remove skin, rub in some brown sugar, then sprinkle with bread crumbs. Then add more sugar and y2 glass of sherry wine and bake one hour. Mrs. Noe.
STEWED RABBITS. ■
Brown in butter two rabbits cut in pieces. Add 2 cups boiling water, 1 cup of cream, ]/2 cup of vinegar and capers. Stew two hours. Mrs. Gamer.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

54Calories

0 gProtein

5 gFat

0 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Water	not in our table	0
Rabbit	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By North End Club (Chicago, Ill.). 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. See the original page.

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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.

Cream + rabbittop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together409 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Cream + vinegartop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,064 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Vinegar + rabbittop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together198 recipes

Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).