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Celery Extract

A liquid extract made by steeping celery seed in water, then adding rum and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and rum work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Celery Extract

Ingredients

Directions

Make the extract

  1. Steep celery seed in water for 72 hours.

  2. Add rum to the mixture.

  3. Strain and bottle the extract.

Use the extract

  1. Add 1 teaspoon of the extract to soup.

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 + rumtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Celery seed
Provides the main celery flavor that infuses into the water and gives the extract its character.
Rum
Acts as a solvent and preservative, extracting flavor compounds and helping keep the bottled extract stable.

“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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