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Celery and Beetroot Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 652 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Celery and Beetroot Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the beetroot into small pieces, about the size of a sugar lump.

  2. Break the celery into pieces about 1 inch long.

  3. Mix the beetroot and celery with the plain dressing.

  4. Use raw or lightly boiled celery.

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. Beetroot + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together652 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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