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Roasted Ham

A ham soaked in wine, rind removed, coated with suet or coarse paste, slowly roasted until glazed, served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and wine work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Roasted Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the ham in wine.

  2. Remove the rind from the ham.

  3. Coat the ham with melted suet or coarse paste.

Roast and serve

  1. Slowly roast the ham until well glazed.

  2. Serve cold on a white napkin.

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 + winetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
The main joint, which is slowly roasted until its surface is well glazed.
Wine
Soaking in wine adds flavour and moisture to the ham before roasting.
Suet or coarse paste
Coats the surface with fat, helping protect the ham from drying and encouraging a glaze.

The step that matters

Slowly roast the ham until well glazed. Low, gentle heat cooks the ham through without drying it out, while the fat coating slowly browns and sets into a glaze on the surface.

“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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