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Ham Patties

Ham patties are baked patties of chopped ham, bread crumbs, and seasonings topped with an egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ham Patties

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Mix chopped ham with crumbed bread and season with pepper.

  2. Add butter if the ham is all lean and moisten with milk to form a soft paste.

Assemble and bake

  1. Fill muffin tins with the mixture and break an egg on top of each.

  2. Sprinkle with pepper, salt, and cracker crumbs.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 10 minutes until the egg is done.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean ham
Provides the meaty base and savory flavor of the patties.
Crumbed bread
Absorbs moisture and gives the mixture body so it holds together.
Milk
Moistens the mixture so it binds into a soft paste.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the patty and form a cooked topping.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the mixture when the ham is lean.

The step that matters

Baking until the egg is done. The egg sets as it heats, so pulling the tins too early leaves it runny, while overbaking can make the egg rubbery and dry the ham beneath.

“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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