Why it works: Milk and ham match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,089 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Soak the ham or salt pork in equal parts milk and water overnight for breakfast or for several hours for other meals.
Rinse the meat in water until it runs clear before cooking.
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.
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Milk + hamtop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,089 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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