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Stuffed Celery

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stuffed Celery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the leaves from the celery hearts and wash them.

  2. Mash the Roquefort cheese to a cream.

  3. Mix the cheese with a little tomato catsup, mayonnaise, and finely chopped olives.

  4. Fill the celery hearts with the mixture.

  5. Sprinkle with paprika before serving.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  3. Celery + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Roquefort cheese + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Celery + roquefort cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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 (roquefort cheese, tomato, olive):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celerythe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against roquefort cheese, tomato, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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