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Horse Radish Sauce

A simple sauce made from grated horse radish, vinegar, sugar, and salt, served with roast beef or cold meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Horse Radish Sauce

Why it works: Horse and radish work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 529 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Horse Radish Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate the horse-radish.

  2. Mix the grated horse-radish with enough vinegar to cover it.

  3. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar and ¼ teaspoon of salt.

Serve

  1. Serve with roast beef or 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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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. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Horse + vinegartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Horse + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Horse-radish
Provides the sharp, pungent heat that defines the sauce.
Vinegar
Softens the horseradish and adds acidity that balances its heat.
Sugar
Adds a little sweetness to soften the sharpness of the sauce.

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horse, vinegar, sugar):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against horse, vinegar, sugar. 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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