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Ham Bone

A soup made with a ham bone, dried peas, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and peas work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 402 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Ham Bone

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the ham bone in a large pot.

  2. Add the dried peas and enough water to cover everything.

  3. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until peas are tender.

  4. Remove the ham bone, shred any remaining meat, and return it to the soup.

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 + peastop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together402 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham bone
Releases savory flavor and some meat into the broth as it simmers.
Dried peas
Soften during simmering and break down, thickening the broth and giving it body.

The step that matters

Reduce heat and simmer until peas are tender. After boiling, a gentle simmer cooks the peas evenly without breaking them apart too early. A hard boil can churn the peas into mush and cloud the broth.

“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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