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York Ham, with Spinach

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

York Ham, with Spinach

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the York ham until heated through.

  2. Prepare the spinach by washing and steaming it until tender.

  3. Serve the ham with the steamed spinach on the side.

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

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