The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
December 4th : SOLUBLE HORSE RADISH
Scrape a stick of horse-radish, and boil it in vinegar; when you find that the liquor is strongly flavoured with the piquancy of the root, pour it upon salt, as directed in making “Soluble cayenne.” I have known many persons obliged to leave the table from the unpleasant fact of a long string of horse-radish having become entangled in their teeth, and descending, with the mouthful into the throat, but not going farther, and thus causing a sensation of suffocation. Such a trial of temper will be avoided by using the above preparation.