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Stueeed Ham

A ham baked with a sweet and savory filling of meat, broth, and cracker crumbs, glazed with brown sugar, flour, cream, and sherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Stueeed Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the ham

  1. Boil the ham and remove the skin while it is hot.

  2. Pour ½ cup vinegar over the ham.

Stuff and coat

  1. Mix 2 cups chopped meat or chicken with ½ cup chicken broth and 1 cup cracker crumbs.

  2. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.

  3. Use a long skewer to make holes in the ham about 1 inch apart and fill them with the meat mixture.

  4. Combine 1 cup brown sugar, ½ cup flour, and enough cream to make a soft paste.

  5. Rub this mixture all over the ham.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake the ham until browned.

  2. Baste the ham with 1 pint sherry.

  3. Once cooled, slice the ham thin.

  4. Serve.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Ham + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Ham + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

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

  5. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Serves as the main body of the dish, which the stuffing and coating surround.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the coating caramelize and brown in the oven.
Flour
Thickens the cream into a soft paste that holds the coating together on the ham.
Cracker crumbs
Bind the chopped meat or chicken into a moist, firm stuffing.
Sherry
Adds aroma and flavor to the ham as it is basted during baking.

The step that matters

Baste the ham with 1 pint sherry. Basting keeps the surface moist and helps build a browned, glossy crust. Adding sherry during baking flavors the outer layer while the sugar coating browns.

“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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