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Fried Ham

Fried ham served with sliced potatoes, eggs, maple syrup, pickles, and coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and coffee work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 167 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Fried Ham

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the ham in a skillet until browned.

  2. Peel and cut the potatoes into slices, then fry them until golden.

  3. Cook the eggs to your preference.

  4. Serve the fried ham with potatoes, eggs, maple syrup, and pickles.

  5. Brew coffee to serve alongside.

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. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Maple syrup + coffeetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together75 recipes

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

  4. Ham + potatotop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together127 recipes

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

  5. Egg + maple syruptop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,156 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Browns in the skillet, giving savoury flavour and a seared surface.
Potatoes
Fry to a golden crust while the inside stays soft, adding bulk and texture.
Eggs
Set in the pan to provide a rich, soft-to-firm contrast to the fried sides.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, egg, maple syrup, coffee):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, egg, maple syrup, coffee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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