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Suedoise Sauce.

A creamy white sauce flavored with horseradish, cucumber, capers, and other ingredients.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 212 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Suedoise Sauce.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients together.

  2. Set the mixture on ice until ready to use.

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. Radish + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cucumber + caperstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Radish + caperstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Horse + cucumbertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Provides the creamy base and smooth body of the sauce.
Horseradish (in the method)
Supplies the sharp, pungent heat that defines the sauce.
Whipped cream
Lightens the texture and adds a softer, airy richness.
Lax
Adds a savoury, salty flavour that contrasts with the heat.

Swap the capers

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

  1. Garlicfits about as well
  2. Capersthe original
  3. Turmericfits about as well
  4. Celeryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against horse, radish, cucumber, cream. 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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