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Paine's Celery Compound

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,498 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Paine's Celery Compound

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the celery seed, red cinchona, lemon peel, orange peel, and coriander seed to a fine powder.

  2. Mix the water and hydrochloric acid in a container.

  3. Add the alcohol and glycerine to the mixture.

  4. Macerate the powdered mixture in the prepared liquid for 24 hours.

  5. Percolate the mixture, adding enough water and alcohol to make a total of 12 fluid ounces.

  6. Finally, add the syrup and filter if necessary.

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. Lemon + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,498 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Celery + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Orange + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together674 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, orange, coriander, syrup):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, orange, coriander, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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