Name: Beefsteak Hache a LA Polonaise
Ingredients: steak; horseradish sauce; bananas

Why it works: Horseradish and sauce work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 775 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Beefsteak Hache a LA Polonaise

Ingredients

steak
horseradish sauce
bananas

Directions

Prepare and cook the steak as you would for Salisbury Steak.
Serve the steak with horseradish sauce.
Fry the bananas and serve alongside the steak.

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.

Horseradish + saucetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together775 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Horseradish + bananatop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Sauce + bananatop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together155 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).