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Haryland Baked Ham

A ham baked with sweet cider, maple syrup, and cloves, then glazed and roasted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cider and clove are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,683 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Haryland Baked Ham

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Simmer the ham

  1. Place the ham in a pot and cover it with sweet cider.

  2. Simmer gently for 3.5 hours, skimming off grease frequently.

  3. Remove the ham when tender and take off the rind.

Glaze and bake

  1. Score the fat on top into diamonds and insert a clove in each diamond.

  2. Rub the top of the ham with ½ cup of maple syrup.

  3. Bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven for 45 minutes.

  4. Garnish and 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. Cider + clovetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,683 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Cider + maple syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Ham + clovetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,666 recipes

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

  4. Maple syrup + clovetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Ham + maple syruptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Provides the main body of the dish, becoming tender and moist as it simmers in cider.
Sweet cider
Liquid for gentle simmering that keeps the ham moist and adds subtle sweetness.
Maple syrup
Adds sweetness and helps the glaze caramelise and brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Simmering gently. Holding the cider at a gentle simmer keeps the ham tender and moist. A hard boil toughens the meat and can make it dry and stringy.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, cider, maple syrup):

  1. Clovethe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Cinnamonfits less well
  4. Allspicefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, cider, maple syrup. 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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