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Dr. Price’s Wheat Flake Celery Food

A prepackaged wheat and celery product that can be baked or boiled in milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Dr. Price’s Wheat Flake Celery Food

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Place the package in the hot oven for a few minutes.

  3. Alternatively, cook the food in boiling milk for 10 minutes.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Wheat + celerytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together149 recipes

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

  3. Celery + milktop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Boiling milk
Serves as the cooking liquid, adding moisture and softening the food as it cooks.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, milk):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, milk. 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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