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BtoltiBd Ham

A ham boiled with turkey dressing, then sliced and optionally baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

BtoltiBd Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the ham

  1. Cut a square piece from the thick part of the ham.

  2. Use a pointed stick to punch holes in the meat.

  3. Fill the holes with the turkey dressing.

  4. Tie the ham in a thick cloth.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil for 3 to 4 hours.

  2. Set aside to cool.

  3. Slice into pieces about ½ inch thick.

  4. Optionally, bake and serve warm.

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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Turkey + sagetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Ham + turkeytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Ham + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Forms the main body of the dish and carries the flavour of the filling.
Turkey dressing
Fills the holes in the meat, adding moisture and seasoned flavour from pepper and sage.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Sagethe original
  3. Celeryfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, turkey, pepper. 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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