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To Boil a York Ham

A boiled York ham, soaked according to age, then cooked and glazed with spinach.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and spinach work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 144 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

To Boil a York Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. If the ham is 3-4 months old, soak it briefly in cold water.

  2. If the ham is over a year old, soak it in cold water for at least 24 hours.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the ham until fully cooked.

  2. Glaze the ham with spinach before serving.

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. Ham + spinachtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

York ham
Is the main cut that is soaked, boiled and served as the dish.
Spinach
Is used as a glaze on the ham before serving.

“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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