Name: Horseradish Sauce
Ingredients: ½ cup thick cream; 2 tablespoons grated horseradish, drained; ¼ teaspoon salt

Why it works: Cream and horseradish work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 483 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Horseradish Sauce

Ingredients

½ cup thick cream
2 tablespoons grated horseradish, drained
¼ teaspoon salt

Directions

Make the sauce

Whip the cream until thick.
Stir in the grated horseradish.
Add the salt and mix well.

Serve

Serve with cold meats, broiled fish, or baked beans.

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.

Cream + horseradishtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together483 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Thick cream: Whipped cream gives the sauce a light, airy body that softens the horseradish bite.
Grated horseradish: Provides the sharp, pungent heat that defines the sauce.

“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.