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Deviled Ham Sandwiches

A sandwich made with deviled ham, celery, pecans, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Deviled Ham Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the deviled ham, celery, pecans, and dressing until well combined.

  2. Spread the mixture between slices of bread to make sandwiches.

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.

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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.

  1. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  2. Pecans + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Celery + pecanstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together219 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Ham + celerytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,608 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Deviled ham
Provides the savory, salty base flavor and the spreadable body of the filling.
Celery
Adds crisp, fresh texture that contrasts with the soft spread.
Pecans
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor to the filling.
Dressing
Adds moisture and tang, binding the filling into a spreadable mixture.

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, celery, bread):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lima beansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, celery, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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