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Horseradish Cheese Spread

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By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Horseradish Cheese Spread

Why it works: Spread and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Horseradish Cheese Spread

2 cups
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

366Calories
10 gProtein
31 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Spreadnot in our table0
Horseradishnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Spread + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cheese + cream cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Horseradish + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, spread, sauce, cream cheese, butter, onion):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, spread, sauce, cream cheese, butter, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.