History

Horseradish is most likely indigenous to calm Eastern Europe, where its Slavic name chren appeared to Augustin Pyramus de Candolle more primitive than any Western equivalent word. Horseradish has been developed since antiquity.[6] According to Greek mythology, the Delphic Oracle told Apollo that the horseradish was justified regardless of its weight in gold.[7] Horseradish was known in Egypt in 1500 BC.[citation needed] Dioscorides recorded horseradish similarly as Persicon sinapi (Diosc. 2.186) or Sinapi persicum (Diosc. 2.168),[8] which Pliny's Natural History reported as Persicon napy;[9] Cato examines the plant in his treatises on farming, and a painting in Pompeii demonstrates the plant. Horseradish is likely the plant specified by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History under the name of Amoracia, and prescribed by him for its therapeutic qualities, and conceivably the wild radish, or raphanos agrios of the Greeks. The early Renaissance botanists Pietro Andrea Mattioli and John Gerard indicated it under Raphanus.[10] Though its current Linnaean family Armoracia was initially connected to it by Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius, in his Flora Jenensis, 1745, Linnaeus called it Coclearia armoracia.

Both root and leaves were utilized as a solution amid the Middle Ages and the root was utilized as a sauce on meats in Germany, Scandinavia, and Britain. It was acquainted with North America amid European colonialization;[11] both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson notice horseradish in greenery enclosure accounts.[12]

William Turner notice horseradish as Red Cole in his "Home grown" (1551–1568), however not as a topping. In The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597), John Gerard depicts it under the name of raphanus rusticanus, expressing that it happens wild in a few sections of England. Subsequent to alluding to its therapeutic uses, he says:

[T]he Horse Radish stamped with a little vinegar put thereto, is regularly utilized among the Germans for sauce to eat fish with and such like meats as we do mustard.[13]

The word horseradish is verified in English from the 1590s. It joins the word horse (once utilized as a part of a non-literal sense to mean solid or coarse) and the word radish.