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Celery Sandwich

A sandwich made with chopped celery, olives, walnuts, mayonnaise, cream cheese, mustard, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Celery Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the celery, olives, and walnuts finely.

  2. Moisten the chopped ingredients with mayonnaise to form a paste.

Make the cream cheese mixture

  1. In a bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter.

  2. Add the mustard, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper to the cream cheese mixture.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on bread to make sandwiches.

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. Celery + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Adds crisp texture and fresh, mild flavor to the filling.
New york cream cheese
Forms the creamy base that holds the filling together and gives it richness.
Mayonnaise
Moistens the chopped ingredients and binds them into a spreadable paste.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and cuts the richness of the cream cheese.
Worcestershire sauce
Contributes savory, tangy depth to the filling.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, olive, cream cheese, mustard, vinegar, sauce, pepper):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Black-eyed peafits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, olive, cream cheese, mustard, vinegar, sauce, pepper. 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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