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Orated Ham

Roasted ham with bread crumbs and lettuce, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Orated Ham

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the ham

  1. Cut a piece from the thickest part of the boiled ham and trim off the fat.

  2. Grate the lean part and place it in the center of a platter.

  3. Slice the fat and arrange it around the edge with tender hearts of lettuce.

  4. Chop the remaining scraps of ham and fat finely.

Bake and serve

  1. In a baking dish, layer bread crumbs, then the chopped ham and fat, repeating until all is used.

  2. Top with a few bits of fat, pour over a little water or dressing, and bake until golden brown at 400°F (200°C).

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Ham + lettucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled ham
Provides the main meaty body and flavor of the dish.
Bread crumbs
Soak up moisture and help bind the layered ham into a cohesive mass.
Lettuce
Adds fresh, crisp contrast to the rich, savory ham.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, bread):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, bread. 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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