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Roquefort Cheese and Horseradish Dressing

A chilled salad dressing made with Roquefort cheese, fresh grated horseradish, and a base of salad dressing.

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

Roquefort Cheese and Horseradish Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a salad dressing using the '3-Egg Yolk Salad Dressing' recipe and chill it.

  2. Mix the Roquefort cheese and grated horseradish together.

Combine and adjust

  1. Add the cheese and horseradish mixture to the chilled salad dressing.

  2. Adjust flavor with additional vinegar or lemon juice if desired.

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. Horseradish + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Roquefort cheese + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  3. Roquefort cheese + horseradishtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Roquefort cheese
Adds a sharp, salty, tangy flavor that gives the dressing its character.
Fresh grated horseradish
Adds a sharp, pungent heat that cuts through the richness of the dressing.
Salad dressing
Forms the creamy base that the cheese and horseradish are blended into.

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (roquefort cheese, vinegar):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against roquefort cheese, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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