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Stuffed Celery to Serve with Salad

A celery dish filled with a mixture of Roquefort, Philadelphia cheese, onion, and cream, chilled before serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Roquefort cheese and cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Stuffed Celery to Serve with Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a paste with Roquefort cheese, Philadelphia cheese, and grated onion.

  2. Add thick sweet cream to the cheese mixture until smooth.

Fill and chill

  1. Fill the curled celery stalks with the cheese paste.

  2. Place the stuffed celery on ice until ready to serve with salad.

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. Roquefort cheese + cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cheese + oniontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,849 recipes

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

  5. Celery + roquefort cheesetop 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

Celery stalks
Provide the crisp, curled vessel that holds the cheese paste.
Roquefort cheese
Adds a strong, tangy flavour that stands out in the paste.
Philadelphia cheese
Gives the paste a soft, creamy body that holds its shape.
Thick sweet cream
Loosens the cheese mixture and makes it smooth enough to fill the celery.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celerythe original
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Pepperfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against roquefort cheese, cheese, onion, cream. 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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