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Bgg Amd Ham Patties

A dish of bread shapes filled with minced ham and brown sauce, topped with a poached egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Bgg Amd Ham Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut a slice of stale bread two inches thick and use a 2-inch round cutter to cut out four or five pieces.

  2. Use a smaller cutter to press nearly through the larger pieces, then remove the inner circle with a small knife.

Fry the bread

  1. Heat ½ cup of boiling lard in a large stew‑pan.

  2. Fry the bread shapes until light brown, then drain on a clean cloth.

Make the ham filling

  1. In a pan, combine the minced ham and brown sauce, stirring over heat for a few minutes.

  2. Add cayenne pepper and lemon juice to the mixture.

  3. Fill the bread shapes with the ham mixture and top each with a poached egg.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Forms the crisp case that holds the filling once fried.
Lard
Fries the bread, giving it a golden, crisp surface.
Lean ham
Provides the savoury, meaty body of the filling.
Brown sauce
Adds moisture and rich savoury flavour that binds the ham.
Poached eggs
Add soft, runny yolk that enriches the filling when cut.

The step that matters

Frying the bread until light brown. Frying in hot lard seals the bread's surface quickly, creating a crisp shell that resists soaking up the filling. Too low a heat makes the bread greasy and soft, while overcooking leaves it dry and brittle.

“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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