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Stuffed Celery

A dish of celery stalks filled with a mixture of Roquefort cheese, sweet cream, olives, green peppers, and paprika.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Celery

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Work the cream into the cheese until smooth.

  2. Add chopped olives and green peppers.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill the hollows of the celery stalks with the mixture.

  2. Dust with paprika and serve as an appetizer or after-dinner cheese.

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. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Olive + celerytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

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

  3. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  4. Roquefort cheese + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Roquefort cheese + celerytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Roquefort cheese
Provides the rich, tangy, creamy base that gives the filling its flavour and body.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and softens the cheese so it blends into a smooth, spreadable filling.
Chopped olives
Contribute salty, briny bites that contrast with the rich cheese.
Chopped green peppers
Add a fresh, crisp texture and mild, grassy flavour to the filling.
Tender stalks of celery
Serve as the crisp, edible vessel that holds the cheese filling.

The step that matters

Work the cream into the cheese until smooth. Cream must be fully blended into the cheese so the filling is smooth and spreadable. Cold or unblended cheese stays crumbly and will not fill the celery hollows neatly.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (roquefort cheese, cream, olive, pepper):

  1. Celerythe original
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Parsleyfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against roquefort cheese, cream, olive, 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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