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Celery Vinegar

A vinegar infused with celery seed, made by steeping seed in white wine vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Celery Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place celery seed in a muslin bag.

  2. Put the bag in a wide-mouthed bottle.

Infuse and store

  1. Fill the bottle with white wine vinegar and cork tightly.

  2. Set the bottle in cold water and heat to boiling.

  3. Remove from the water bath, cork tightly, and store in a cool place.

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. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Celery + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,627 recipes

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

  3. Celery + white winetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery seed
Provides the aromatic flavor compounds that infuse into the vinegar.
White wine vinegar
Acidic liquid that extracts the celery seed flavor and carries it through the finished vinegar.

Swap the celery

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, 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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