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Cel Celery Puree

A sauce made by cooking celery, sieving it, and mixing with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,863 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Cel Celery Puree

Ingredients

Directions

Make the puree

  1. Cook the celery until tender.

  2. Pass the cooked celery through a sieve.

Finish and serve

  1. Mix the celery puree with cream.

  2. Serve with partridges, quails, chicken, or other dishes.

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. Celery + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,863 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

Celery
Provides the main flavour and, once cooked and sieved, the smooth body of the puree.
Cream
Adds richness and a silky, smooth texture that softens the puree's vegetal taste.

The step that matters

Passing the celery through a sieve. Cooked celery holds fibrous strands that stay stringy unless pressed through a sieve. Pressing breaks down the cell walls and yields a smooth puree, so the cooked celery should be soft before it is passed.

“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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