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Gammon & Eggs

This is a bit of a British classic, but I'm taking it up a notch and promoting it from a simple brunch to a good lunch or dinner. Flattening the gammon as it cooks means it gets great colour and character, and the mustard gives it a good bit of attitude. Give it a try.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 43,327 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By jamieoliver. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon + eggtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Watercress + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Honey + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Potato + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, pepper, olive, honey, lemon, watercress, mustard):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, olive, honey, lemon, watercress, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).