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Celery Vinegar

A vinegar infused with celery, made by steeping fresh celery in hot vinegar and salt for a month.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,627 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Celery Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the fresh celery into very small pieces.

  2. Place the celery in a fruit jar.

  3. Pour scalding hot vinegar over the celery.

  4. Add the salt and cover tightly.

Steep

  1. Let it stand for one month.

Bottle

  1. Strain the vinegar and put it in small bottles.

  2. Cork the bottles tightly.

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 + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,627 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Celery seed
Supplies the concentrated celery aroma and flavour that defines the vinegar.
Fresh celery
Adds fresh, green celery flavour that the vinegar draws out during steeping.
Vinegar
Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour and gives the sharp acidity.

The step that matters

Let it stand for one month. The flavour is extracted slowly from the celery into the vinegar. Rushing or straining early leaves the vinegar weak and under-flavoured.

“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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