Name: A VAllemande {Godiveau or German Quenelles}
Ingredients: mashed potatoes; grated horseradish; sharp white sauce

Why it works: Potato and horseradish work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

A VAllemande {Godiveau or German Quenelles}

Ingredients

mashed potatoes
grated horseradish
sharp white sauce

Directions

Prepare mashed potatoes.
Mix in grated horseradish.
Serve with a sharp white sauce over boiled or braised meats.

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.

Potato + horseradishtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together171 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Horseradish + saucetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together775 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,073 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).