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Celery and Apple Salad

A salad of diced celery, apples, hard‑boiled eggs, and a mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Landmarks Club · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Celery and Apple Salad

serves six or seven persons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the celery and apples

  1. Cut tender, white celery into small dice, cut the heart, leaves and all. Season well with salt and pepper.

  2. Cut tender, tart apples into very small, thin slices. Mix apples and celery together.

Make the dressing

  1. Stir the dressing into the yolk of the egg, then add the oil drop by drop, stirring all the time, then the vinegar and lemon juice, and finally the salt.

  2. Chop one head of celery and two hard-boiled eggs. Mix them with the mayonnaise dressing made from the yolk of one egg, one-quarter teaspoonful of mustard wet with a little water, one-half pint olive oil, one-half tablespoonful vinegar, the juice of half a lemon, and salt.

  3. Add mayonnaise dressing until it is of good consistency.

  4. Add more salt after mixing all together, as this salad takes more salt than others. This makes a sufficient quantity for six or seven persons.

Serve

  1. Serve on lettuce leaf or garnish with celery leaves or with the pink seeds of pomegranates.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

221Calories
7 gProtein
19 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Landmarks Club. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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 + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  3. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Olive oil
Emulsifies with the egg yolk to form the mayonnaise-style dressing, giving it body and richness.
Egg yolk
Acts as the emulsifier that holds the oil and vinegar together in the dressing.
Celery
Provides the crisp, fresh bulk of the salad.
Apple (in the method)
Adds crisp texture and a tart, sweet-sharp contrast to the celery.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the rich oil.
Mustard
Helps stabilise the emulsion and adds a sharp, pungent note.

The step that matters

Adding the oil to the yolk. Oil must be added drop by drop while stirring constantly so the yolk can emulsify it; adding it too fast causes the dressing to split and turn greasy.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, mustard, olive, vinegar, egg):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, mustard, olive, vinegar, egg. 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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