Why it works: Meat and horseradish work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 100 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓
Roasted Leg
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the leg of meat as you would for boiling.
Carefully spit the meat onto a roasting spit.
Cover the meat with paper.
Roast according to standard roasting directions.
Serve garnished with scraped horseradish.
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.
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Meat + horseradishtop 20% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together100 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
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