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Horse Kadish with Milk

A dish of grated horse radishes cooked with milk, sugar, salt, and flour, served with boiled meats.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 Kadish with Milk

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and grate the horse radishes.

  2. Combine the grated horse radishes, milk, sugar, salt, and flour in a saucepan.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes.

  2. Serve with boiled meats.

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. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

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

  2. Radish + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together119 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Horse radishes
Provide the sharp, pungent flavor that defines the sauce.
Milk
Supplies moisture and a creamy body for the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the sauce as its starch swells in the hot liquid.
Sugar
Adds a little sweetness to soften the sharpness of the horse radish.

The step that matters

Cook the sauce gently with flour. Flour thickens only as its starch swells in heated milk, so stirring while it cooks helps prevent lumps and scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the radish

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

  1. Beetrootfits about as well
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Radishthe original
  4. Parsnipfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against horse, milk, sugar, flour. 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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