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Celery Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely chopped celery, olives, walnuts, and mayonnaise on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 852 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Celery Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the celery finely.

  2. Stone and chop the olives.

  3. Blanch and chop the walnuts.

Assemble

  1. Mix the celery, olives, and walnuts with mayonnaise to form a paste.

  2. Spread the mixture on slices of buttered bread.

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 + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  2. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  4. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Provides crisp texture and a fresh, mild flavor to the filling.
Olives
Add salty, savory flavor that contrasts with the sweetness of the bread.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a mild, nutty richness to the filling.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the chopped ingredients into a spreadable paste and adds fat and moisture.
Bread
Serves as the base that holds the filling, with butter adding richness to the slices.

Swap the celery

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, walnut, 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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