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Mixed Mustard

A mustard condiment made with dry mustard, oil, salt, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Mixed Mustard

Why it works: Mustard and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,067 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Mixed Mustard

Ingredients

Directions

Mix

  1. In a bowl, mix the dry mustard and salad oil until smooth.

  2. Add the salt and stir well.

  3. Slowly add the vinegar while stirring.

Heat

  1. Heat the mixture in a saucepan until warmed through.

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. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Dry mustard
Supplies the main sharp, pungent flavour of the condiment.
Salad oil
Adds fat that makes the mixture smooth and rich in texture.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavour and thins the paste.

The step that matters

Slowly add the vinegar while stirring. Dry mustard clumps easily when liquid is added all at once. Adding the vinegar gradually while stirring disperses the powder evenly, so the mixture stays smooth instead of lumpy.

“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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