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Horse Radish Sauce

A creamy sauce made with grated horse radish, mustard, cream, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Horse Radish Sauce

Why it works: Radish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 297 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Horse Radish Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cream mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix together the grated horse radish, mixed mustard, pepper, and salt with the cream.

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, rub the flour and butter into the boiling milk.

  2. Add ½ teaspoon salt and boil for 10 minutes.

  3. Stir in the freshly grated horse radish and boil for 1 minute longer.

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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Explore the science

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. Radish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together297 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Horse + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Grated horse radish
Provides the sharp, pungent heat that gives the sauce its character.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, softening the sharpness of the horseradish.
Flour
Thickens the milk into a smooth, body-rich sauce as its starch cooks.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the flour blend smoothly into the milk.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the flour thickens into the sauce.

The step that matters

Rubbing the flour and butter into the boiling milk. Flour added to hot liquid can clump, so it should be worked in smoothly. The boil then cooks the starch, thickening the sauce and removing the raw flour taste.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horse, radish, pepper, cream, flour, butter, milk):

  1. Mustardthe original
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Beetrootfits about as well
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against horse, radish, pepper, cream, flour, butter, milk. 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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