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Celery Stewed with Allemande Sauce

Celery stewed in a creamy allemande sauce, finished with butter, lemon juice, parsley, and served with toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Celery Stewed with Allemande Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the celery as described in the previous recipe.

Make the sauce

  1. When cooked to a glaze, add 4 tablespoons of Allemande sauce.

  2. Just before serving, add a small piece of butter, chopped parsley, and the juice of 1 lemon.

  3. Toss well over the fire.

Serve

  1. Serve with small pieces of toast as a garnish.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Allemande sauce
Coats the celery and adds a rich, creamy body to the dish.
Butter
Adds fat and a glossy finish to the sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the lemon juice and butter just before serving. Lemon juice and butter added at the last moment keep their fresh flavour and glossy texture; if heated for long, the butter can separate and the acid can taste dull or sharp.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, butter, parsley, lemon):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, butter, parsley, lemon. 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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