Name: Horse Radish Sauce
Ingredients: dried currants; grated horse radish

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

dried currants
grated horse radish

Directions

Prepare the sauce as directed in your preferred recipe.
Add dried currants and grated horse radish 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.

Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together529 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Currant + radishtop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together10 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Currant + horsetop 44% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).