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Boiled celery served with brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 , Strived

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the green tops from the celery and wash it thoroughly.

  2. Trim off the outer leaves.

Cook

  1. Boil the celery in enough consommé to cover it for 20 minutes or until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve the celery with ½ pint of Brown Sauce made from half-glaze.

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
Forms the main body of the dish; boiling softens its fibres to a tender texture.
Brown sauce
Adds rich, savoury flavour and a glossy coating over the celery.

The step that matters

Boil until tender. Stop when the celery is just tender. Undercooked celery stays fibrous and crunchy, while overcooking breaks down its cell walls and leaves it limp and watery.

“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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