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Horseradish Sauce

A sauce made with mustard, sugar, salt, vinegar, and grated horse-radish, served with beef.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and radish 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 ↓

Horseradish Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a bowl, mix the mustard, sugar, salt, and vinegar.

  2. Pour the mixture over the grated horse-radish.

Serve

  1. Serve with beef.

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. Mustard + radishtop 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. Mustard + horsetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vinegar + radishtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Made mustard
Adds sharp, pungent flavour that complements the horseradish heat.
White sugar
Balances the sharpness of the vinegar and mustard with sweetness.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavour and helps preserve the sauce.
Grated horse-radish
Provides the main pungent heat and characteristic flavour of the sauce.

The step that matters

Pour the mixture over the grated horse-radish. Horseradish releases its pungent compounds when its cells are cut or grated, and these compounds fade with heat and time. Adding the acidic mixture promptly helps stabilise the sharp flavour, so the sauce should be made and served soon after combining.

“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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