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Stuffed Celery

A chilled celery snack filled with a cream cheese and mayonnaise mixture, topped with green peppers and optional cayenne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Celery

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and dry the celery stalks.

Make the filling

  1. Mix cream cheese with mayonnaise dressing until it reaches the consistency of cottage cheese.

  2. Add finely chopped green peppers to the mixture.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the grooves of the celery with the cream cheese mixture.

  2. Sprinkle a few grains of cayenne on top if desired.

  3. Garnish with small pieces of pimento.

  4. Serve with soup.

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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Celery + cream cheesetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Cream cheese + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,195 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Provides a rich, creamy base that holds the filling in the celery grooves.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and tang, softening the cream cheese to a spreadable texture.
Green peppers
Add a crisp, fresh bite and mild, grassy flavour to the filling.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, pepper):

  1. Dillfits better
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Basilfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, pepper. 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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