Name: To Prepare Horseradish for Win'jer
Ingredients: 1 cup grated horse-radish; 2 tablespoons white sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; 1½ pints cold vinegar; 2 tablespoons prepared horse-radish; 2 teaspoons olive oil (or melted butter or cream); 1 teaspoon prepared mustard

Why it works: Radish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 297 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

To Prepare Horseradish for Win'jer

Ingredients

1 cup grated horse-radish
2 tablespoons white sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1½ pints cold vinegar
2 tablespoons prepared horse-radish
2 teaspoons olive oil (or melted butter or cream)
1 teaspoon prepared mustard

Directions

Mix grated horse-radish, sugar, salt, and cold vinegar in a bowl.
Bottle the mixture and seal it for storage.
To make horse-radish sauce, combine 2 tablespoons of the prepared horse-radish with olive oil and mustard. Stir well to combine.

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.

Radish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together297 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together529 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Horse + mustardtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together201 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,067 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,950 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated horse-radish: Provides the sharp, pungent heat that defines the sauce.
Cold vinegar: Adds acidity that balances the sharpness and helps preserve the mixture.
Olive oil: Adds fat and a smoother, richer texture to the sauce.
Prepared mustard: Adds sharpness and helps emulsify the oil into the sauce.

“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.