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Celery with Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and cheese work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 647 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Celery with Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select small stalks of celery with deep grooves.

  2. Wash and dry the celery, then cut into two-inch pieces.

  3. Fill the celery stalks with mashed Neufchatel cheese.

  4. Season the cheese with coarse sea salt and paprika.

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 + cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

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