Skip to main content
Main

Boiling Ham

Ham boiled until half cooked, then baked with brown sugar and wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 ↓

Boiling Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the ham until it is about half cooked.

  2. Let it sit in the water for 5 to 6 hours or overnight.

Glaze and bake

  1. Score the surface of the ham and sprinkle with brown sugar.

  2. Place the ham in the oven and baste it with wine until fully cooked.

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.

Explore the science

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).

  2. Sugar + winetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 recipes

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

  3. Ham + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,084 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Main cut of meat; boiling partly cooks it before the oven finishes the job.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown and caramelize during baking.
Wine
Basting adds moisture and flavor to the surface as the ham bakes.

The step that matters

Place the ham in the oven and baste it with wine until fully cooked.. The ham is only partly cooked after boiling, so it must finish cooking fully in the oven. Basting keeps the surface moist while the sugar browns, but the meat needs to reach full doneness before serving.

“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.

More baked ham recipes

with Apples 3 See all 159 →

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipesYorkshire PuddingYorkshire Pudding264 recipes