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Mutton ham is soaked to remove salt, then boiled and served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and ham work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 430 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

To Drbss Mutton Hams

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the mutton ham in cold spring water for 5 to 6 hours, or 1 hour if it has recently been cured.

  2. Place the ham in a pot with cold water.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil gently for 2.5 hours.

  2. Serve cold.

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. Mutton + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton ham
Is the main cured meat that is softened by soaking and then cooked through by gentle boiling.

“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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