Name: Celery with Toasts
Ingredients: 2-3 slices of bread, about 3 inches square; Butter, for spreading; Celery, prepared as per previous instructions

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Celery with Toasts

Ingredients

2-3 slices of bread, about 3 inches square
Butter, for spreading
Celery, prepared as per previous instructions

Directions

Stew the celery as described in the previous recipe.
Butter the bread slices on one side.
Place the stewed celery on the buttered side of the toasts.
Serve immediately as a supper dish.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + celerytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,110 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Butter + celerytop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,049 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).