Name: Celery Salad
Ingredients: 1 pint tender white celery, cut into half-inch pieces; ½ cup mayonnaise or other dressing; Bismark or Newport wafers for serving

Celery Salad

Ingredients

1 pint tender white celery, cut into half-inch pieces
½ cup mayonnaise or other dressing
Bismark or Newport wafers for serving

Directions

Mix the celery with the mayonnaise or dressing.
Serve immediately with Bismark or Newport wafers.

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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What each ingredient does

Celery: Provides the crisp, crunchy texture that is the main character of the salad.
Mayonnaise: Adds fat and creaminess, coating the celery and giving the salad its richness.

“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.