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Horseradish Butter

A butter spread flavored with grated horseradish, white pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Horseradish Butter

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 ↓

Horseradish Butter

Ingredients

Directions

Make the butter

  1. Mix the butter and grated horse-radish together.

  2. Add the white pepper and salt, and combine well.

Shape and serve

  1. Mold the mixture into tiny balls.

  2. Serve on broiled steak just before serving.

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. Butter + radishtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + horsetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Radish + white peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Butter + white peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Carries the horseradish and seasonings and gives the mixture a rich, creamy body.
Grated horse-radish
Provides the sharp, pungent heat and aroma that flavours the butter.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, horse, radish. 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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