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Essence of Celery

A concentrated flavoring made by soaking celery seed in brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Essence of Celery

Why it works: Celery and brandy work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 217 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Essence of Celery

Ingredients

Directions

Make the essence

  1. Soak the celery seed in the brandy for 2 weeks.

Use

  1. Add a few drops of this essence to flavor a soup or broth.

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 + brandytop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery seed
Supplies the aroma and flavor that the brandy extracts into the essence.
Brandy
Acts as the solvent that draws out the celery seed's flavor compounds over time.

“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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