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Celery Sauce

A sauce made from celery, stock, and white sauce, served with boiled turkey.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,360 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Celery Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook the celery

  1. Cut the celery into small pieces.

  2. Place the celery in a pan with the salt and stock.

  3. Cover and cook gently until tender.

Finish the sauce

  1. Chop the celery finely or rub it through a sieve.

  2. Add the white sauce and bring to a boil.

  3. Serve with boiled turkey.

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 + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,360 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Provides the main flavour and, once softened and puréed, the body of the sauce.
White stock
Cooks the celery gently and adds savoury liquid that becomes part of the sauce.
White sauce
Forms the creamy base that gives the finished sauce its smooth, rich texture.

The step that matters

Cooking the celery until tender. Celery stays fibrous if undercooked, and the sauce will be stringy or gritty. Gentle, covered cooking softens the fibres so they break down easily when chopped or sieved.

“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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