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Celery Sauce

A sauce made from boiled celery, water, cream, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,863 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Celery Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the celery

  1. Cut the celery into ½ inch pieces.

  2. Cook the celery in boiling salted water until tender.

Make the sauce

  1. Reduce the water to ½ cup.

  2. Make a white sauce using the celery water and cream.

  3. Add the cooked celery to the sauce and reheat.

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 + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,863 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Provides the main vegetable flavor and body of the sauce once cooked until tender.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the sauce a smoother, rounder mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Reduce the water to ½ cup. The celery cooking water becomes the base of the white sauce. Reducing it concentrates its flavor and sets the liquid volume, so the sauce is neither thin nor overly seasoned when the cream is added.

“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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