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Celery Stuffing

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 ↓

Celery Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the celery finely.

  2. Rub the butter into the bread crumbs.

  3. Add the chopped celery, eggs, salt, and pepper to the crumbs and mix well.

  4. Stuff the turkey with the mixture, including some in the breast.

  5. Sew the turkey securely.

  6. Wring a large square of cotton cloth out of cold water and dredge it thickly with flour.

  7. Wrap the turkey in the cloth and plunge it into boiling water.

  8. Boil for 20 minutes per pound, rapidly for the first 15 minutes, then reduce the heat but do not stop boiling.

  9. Once done, place the turkey on a platter, remove the cloth and skewers, and drain well.

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

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the celery

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, egg, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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