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Baked Ham

A ham wrapped in oats, boiled, then baked with a flour and water batter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,169 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Baked Ham

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the ham

  1. Wash and clean the ham.

  2. Wrap the ham tightly in oats.

  3. Boil the wrapped ham until fully cooked.

  4. Remove the ham from the water.

  5. Peel off the oats from the ham.

Bake and serve

  1. Place two flat sticks in the bottom of a baking pan.

  2. Lay the ham on top of the sticks.

  3. Mix flour and water to create a batter.

  4. Spread the batter over the ham.

  5. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  6. Remove the batter from the ham.

  7. Serve.

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. Oats + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Ham + oatstop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  3. Ham + flourtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Is the main cooked meat that the whole dish is built around.
Oats
Wrap the ham during boiling, and are removed afterward.
Flour
Forms the batter that is spread over the ham before baking.
Water
Combines with the flour to make the batter.

The step that matters

Boil the wrapped ham until fully cooked. The ham must reach a fully cooked internal temperature before baking, since the oven stage mainly heats and sets the batter. Cooking it through during boiling makes the result safe and tender.

“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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