Celery & Magnolia
I can’t convince you to try this, but I can encourage it. This is a Good Idea™.
I can’t convince you to try this, but I can encourage it. This is a Good Idea™.
celery & magnolia
You were sitting in your ivory castle, thinking to yourself you have all the foods and flavors you’ll ever need—that your coffee is ‘complete’; your plate is full.
I have unfortunate news, your ivory tower is off-white plywood and spackle.
Enter Celery.
Celery is the clear next step in this terrible evolution we call “good ideas”, and it is a 2nd-perfect spring drink in 2024 [just behind a magnolia capp].
It is light, airy—
—and you still have the taste of the crunch, without the gross celery flavor.
It’s springlike, and crisp.
Enter Magnolia.
Making the rounds all over InstaTok, Magnolia is purported to have a gingery flavor—assuming you pick the flowers that are not overripe nor brand new. You can find a syrup recipe for this online, as there’s no claim to originality here.
[By the way, this is likely the last week you can get Magnolia in the city (for free!) so get pickin’!]
For the recipe
Unlike our previous recipes, this one is a blend-and-basket [pulverize-and-permeate? centrifuge-and-sift? obliterate-and-distillate?] as you aren’t simply putting the spice with a sugar-syrup.
You are simmering the vegetable, then blending and straining the mixture. [Crush-and-clarify?]
2 cups celery, or 12 large celery stalks, loosely sectioned/cut to fit in the pot
1.75 cups sugar
1 cup water
Celery contains a lot of water [around 95.4%!], and around 0.5 cups of water per 1 cup celery [celery takes up more space than water].
It comes out to about 351.505 + 2.707 [from 202g celery] = 354g sugar and 480g water. So, feel free to be a little heavy handed with the sugar [a minor amount of the starches may be turned into sugars (4.7874g) as it cooks]
If you want to be obtuse, add 124g of sugar to this recipe.
You goofball.
Blend in a blender [extirpate and exfiltrate], everything
(optional) place the mixture in a pot and boil 10–20 minutes. Alternatively, let the mixture sit in the blender for a half hour.
strain out to a syrup
Then,
1.5 oz celery syrup
0.5 oz magnolia syrup
12 oz sparkling water, like Saratoga
Stir, no shake