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Ham Canape

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 153 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Ham Canape

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut rounds of ham using a large biscuit cutter.

  2. Spread pâté de foie gras on each ham round.

  3. Garnish with olives stuffed with celery.

  4. Serve with hot buttered biscuits.

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. Olive + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Ham + biscuittop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Ham + olivetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together284 recipes

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

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

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