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Celeri Au Parmesan- -celery with Parmesan Cheese

A sautéed celery dish flavored with butter, Parmesan cheese, salt, sugar, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,331 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Celeri Au Parmesan- -celery with Parmesan Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the celery

  1. Clean and wash the celery well.

  2. Parboil the celery in salted water for 25 minutes.

  3. Drain and cool the celery in cold water.

  4. Press the celery to remove excess moisture and chop finely.

Cook the celery

  1. Heat the butter in a saucepan and add the chopped celery.

  2. Stir over medium heat for 10 minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the Parmesan cheese and season with salt, sugar, and nutmeg.

  2. Serve warm.

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 + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,331 recipes

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

  2. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Celery + parmesan cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together523 recipes

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

  4. Butter + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 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
Forms the main body of the dish and supplies its tender, moist texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and carries the flavor as the celery cooks.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory, salty depth that gives the celery its cheesy flavor.
Sugar
Adds a small amount of sweetness that balances the salty cheese.

The step that matters

Press the celery dry before chopping and cooking. Wet celery dilutes the butter and steams instead of softening in fat, so pressing out the excess water helps it cook in the butter and keeps the flavor concentrated.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parmesan cheese, butter, sugar, nutmeg):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parmesan cheese, butter, sugar, nutmeg. 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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