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Chicken Celery

A simple salad of chopped chicken or turkey remains mixed with celery, seasoned with salt and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,375 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken Celery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the remains of chicken or turkey.

  2. Mix with an equal portion of chopped celery.

  3. Add a little salt and vinegar to taste.

  4. Serve immediately.

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. Chicken + celerytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Celery + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,627 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Chicken + vinegartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken or turkey
Forms the main body and protein of the salad.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mild crunch against the soft meat.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the meat and celery.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, vinegar):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, vinegar. 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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