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Garnitures De Celeri Ou Entremets

A celery garnish cooked with bacon, onion, carrot, parsley, and seasonings, served with veal kidneys, fowls, or gigots.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Garnitures De Celeri Ou Entremets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the celery

  1. Clean and dress the celery, pare the roots, and wash in several waters.

  2. Blanch, refresh, drain, and tie the celery in five bunches.

Braise

  1. Cover a stewpan with slices of bacon and add the celery, onion stuck with a clove, carrot quarters, parsley, young onions, and a little salt.

  2. Moisten with a little of the top pot, cover with bacon slices and a round of paper.

  3. Boil, then simmer with heat from above and below.

Serve

  1. Serve around veal kidneys, fowls, or gigots, and sauce with espagnole or clear juice.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  4. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 garnish and becomes tender and mild during long, gentle cooking.
Bacon
Lines the pan and adds savoury fat and flavour that moistens the celery as it cooks.

The step that matters

Simmer gently under a covered paper. Boiling briskly before simmering can toughen and break the celery. A gentle simmer with heat from above and below cooks it evenly while keeping it intact and tender.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, clove, carrot, parsley. 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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