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Celery a LA Remoulade

A celery salad dressed with a mustard vinaigrette flavored with chervil, chives, shallot, garlic, salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 370 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Celery a LA Remoulade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the celery and place it in a salad boat.

  2. Chop the shallot, chervil, chives, and garlic.

  3. In a bowl, combine the chopped ingredients with salt and pepper.

Make the remoulade

  1. Mix in the oil, mustard, and vinegar until smooth.

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.

Explore the science

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. Chervil + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together266 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Shallot + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Chive + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Forms the crisp, fresh base that the dressing is served over.
Mustard
Emulsifies the oil and vinegar, helping the dressing stay smooth and cohesive.
Oil
Adds richness and body, carrying flavour across the dressing.
Vinegar
Brings acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the oil.
Shallot
Adds a mild, sharp onion aroma that flavours the dressing.

The step that matters

Mix in the oil, mustard, and vinegar until smooth. Mustard helps hold oil and vinegar together as an emulsion. Adding the oil too quickly or stopping too early can leave the dressing separated and greasy rather than smooth and cohesive.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, shallot, chervil, chive, garlic, pepper, mustard):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, shallot, chervil, chive, garlic, pepper, mustard. 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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