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Stuffld Ham

Ham stuffed with meat or chicken, broth, cracker crumbs, then coated with brown sugar, flour, and cream, baked with 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 ↓

Stuffld Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the ham

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

  2. Pour ½ cup vinegar over the ham.

Stuff and coat

  1. Mix 2 cups chopped meat or chicken, ½ cup chicken broth, 1 cup cracker crumbs, salt, and pepper to taste.

  2. Make holes in the ham about 1 inch apart and fill them with the mixture.

  3. Combine 1 cup brown sugar, ½ cup flour, and enough cream to make a soft paste; rub this over the ham.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake until brown, basting with 1 pint sherry.

  2. Once cooled, slice thin and 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, holding the stuffing and glaze.
Chopped meat or chicken
Adds savory filling and substance to the stuffing mixture.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb the broth and bind the stuffing so it holds together.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the glaze caramelize and brown in the oven.
Flour
Thickens the glaze paste so it clings to the ham's surface.

The step that matters

Basting with sherry while baking. Sherry added during baking moistens the surface and helps the sugar glaze brown evenly without drying or scorching. Basting regularly keeps the ham juicy as it cooks.

“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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