Celery Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the cherries in a mixture of strong coarse sea salt and ice water overnight.
Rinse the cherries with ice water.
Serve
Arrange the cherries on lettuce hearts.
Serve with mayonnaise for dipping.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide the sweet-tart fruit that is the main flavour of the salad.
- Lettuce hearts
- Provide a crisp, cool base that contrasts with the firm cherries.
- Mayonnaise
- Adds richness and fat for dipping, balancing the cherries' acidity.
The step that matters
Soaking the cherries in salted ice water overnight. Soaking in a salt and ice water solution firms the cherry flesh and helps keep it crisp rather than soft. Rinsing with ice water afterward keeps the cherries cold and firm for serving.
“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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