Name: Eago6t of Celery
Ingredients: Celery; Good gravy; Mushroom ketchup; Coarse sea salt; Pepper

Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Eago6t of Celery

Ingredients

Directions

Wash the celery well and boil for 30 minutes.
Remove the celery and place it in cold water for 15 minutes, then strain.
Stew the celery in good gravy with a little mushroom ketchup, salt, and pepper.
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.

Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Celery + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,006 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,580 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Celery + ketchuptop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together456 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mushroom + ketchuptop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,225 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).