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Cheese and Celery Relish

A relish of celery stalks filled with cheese, served with bread and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 473 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheese and Celery Relish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut celery stalks into 2-inch pieces.

  2. Fill the grooves with Neufchatel, cream cheese, or pimiento cheese.

Serve

  1. Serve with bread and butter as a salad course or as a relish.

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. Cheese + cream cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Deep-grooved celery stalks
Provide the crisp, watery base that holds the cheese filling.
Neufchatel cheese
Adds a soft, creamy filling that sits in the celery grooves.
Cream cheese
Adds a soft, creamy filling that sits in the celery grooves.
Pimiento cheese
Adds a soft, creamy filling with a mild, savory flavor.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cream cheese, bread, butter. 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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