Name: Celery Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 cup white tender celery, chopped into ¼ inch pieces; 2 hard-boiled eggs, minced; 2 tablespoons mayonnaise; buttered bread slices

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Celery Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 cup white tender celery, chopped into ¼ inch pieces
2 hard-boiled eggs, minced
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
buttered bread slices

Directions

Prepare

Chop the celery into ¼ inch pieces until you have 1 cup.
Mince the hard‑boiled eggs and rub them through a coarse sieve.

Assemble

Mix the chopped celery with the sieved eggs and mayonnaise.
Spread the mixture between thin slices of buttered bread.

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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,110 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Celery + eggtop 34% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,334 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).