Boiled Celery
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the celery carefully without breaking it apart.
Trim off the roots and green stalks.
Cook and serve
Boil the celery in salted boiling water until just tender, but not breaking apart.
Drain the celery and serve with your preferred sauce.
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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What each ingredient does
- Celery
- Provides the main vegetable body, becoming tender and mildly sweet as it cooks.
- Sea salt
- Seasons the cooking water so the celery picks up flavour as it simmers.
The step that matters
Boil until just tender. Celery stalks have fibrous strands and a watery structure that break down quickly with heat. Overcooking softens the cell walls too far, so the stalks collapse and fall apart. Checking early keeps the texture firm yet tender.
“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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