Name: Horseradish Vinegar
Ingredients: 7 tablespoons grated horseradish; 3 pints vinegar

Why it works: Horseradish and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,609 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Horseradish Vinegar

Ingredients

7 tablespoons grated horseradish
3 pints vinegar

Directions

Make the infusion

Place the grated horseradish in a jar.
Add boiling hot vinegar and seal tightly.

Use

When using, drain off what is needed without straining the horseradish.

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.

Horseradish + vinegartop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,609 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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What each ingredient does

Grated horseradish: Supplies the sharp, pungent flavour that infuses into the vinegar.
Vinegar: Acts as the solvent that extracts horseradish flavour and provides acidity.

“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.