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Garniture De Celeri

A savory celery garnish cooked with bacon, ham, lemon, onion, and stock.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,467 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Garniture De Celeri

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the celery for 5 minutes and drain.

  2. Cut the celery into pieces and place in a stewpan with the bacon.

Braise

  1. Add the ham, bay leaf, lemon slices, and onion stuck with a clove.

  2. Cover with bacon and moisten with stock until the celery is covered.

  3. Place the pan on a hot hearth with hot ashes on the cover.

Serve

  1. Once cooked, transfer to a deep dish, strain the sauce, and pour over the celery.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

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

  3. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Lemon + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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 absorbs the flavour of the braising liquid as it cooks.
Stock
Provides the liquid that braises the celery and forms the base of the sauce.
Bacon
Adds savoury fat and smoky flavour to the celery and the braising liquid.

The step that matters

Place the pan on a hot hearth with hot ashes on the cover. Heat must come from above and below so the celery cooks gently through in its liquid. Too little heat leaves it underdone, while too much can scorch the bottom and dry the celery before it softens.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, ham, lemon, clove):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, ham, lemon, clove. 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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