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Horseradish- Wash

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and milk work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 231 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Horseradish- Wash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Infuse the horseradish in the cold milk for four hours.

  2. Strain the mixture through muslin.

  3. Bottle the liquid and cork it properly.

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. Horseradish + milktop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together231 recipes

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

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

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