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To Make Ham Rolls

Ham rolls are made by rolling ham slices on buttered bread and garnishing with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

To Make Ham Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut thin slices of bread and butter them.

  2. Lay a thin slice of ham on a buttered slice of bread, then roll it up.

  3. Repeat until you have enough rolls.

Arrange and garnish

  1. Arrange two rolls in one direction and two in another on a dish.

  2. Garnish with curled parsley and snail-shaped butter around the edge.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Butter + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 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

Bread
Thin buttered slices form the outer wrapper that holds the rolls together.
Butter
Coats the bread, adding richness and moisture and helping keep the rolls from drying out.
Ham
Provides the savory filling and the main flavour inside each roll.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, ham. 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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