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Bar Scheez Dip

"This is my version of Win Schuyler's Bar Scheeze®. I've made it with spicy horseradish, using only 2 ounces, and it worked as well."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,955 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

3 cups
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Place the diced processed cheese in a heavy saucepan or microwave-safe bowl.

  2. Pour the melted butter over the cheese.

  3. Heat over low heat, stirring often, until the cheese is fully melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. If microwaving, heat in 30-second bursts, stirring between each, until smooth.

  4. Stir in the hot pepper sauce and all of the prepared horseradish until evenly combined.

  5. Keep the dip warm over very low heat or in a warm spot, stirring occasionally, and serve while warm.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Sauce + horseradishtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together775 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Pepper + horseradishtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + saucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,861 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Butter and sauce share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,317 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, butter, pepper, sauce):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, pepper, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).