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Radish Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and beetroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Radish Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and grate the radishes.

  2. Mix the grated radishes with a little oil, vinegar, coarse sea salt, and pepper.

  3. For variation, add scraped horse-radish and minced beetroot in equal parts to the grated radish.

  4. Serve as an accompaniment to cold meat.

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. Radish + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Radish + horsetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

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

  3. Radish + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Radish + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Horse + beetroottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12 recipes

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

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

Swap the radish

The recipe marks radish as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, pepper, horse, beetroot):

  1. Radishthe original
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Horseradishfits less well
  4. Cucumberfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, pepper, horse, beetroot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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