How much is a sleeve of celery?
I was reading a recipe for Slow Cooker Rosemary Garlic Beef Stew and noticed that one of the ingredients called for a "sleeve" of celery. I've heard of a stalk of celery, but I've never heard of a sleeve. Here is the list of ingredients:
Ingredients
½ lb. (4 medium) carrots [CO].55
½ sleeve celery [CO].65
1 medium onion [CO].36
2 lbs. red potatoes .00
2 Tbsp olive oil [CO].32
4 cloves garlic, minced [CO].32
1½ lbs. beef stew meat .06
Salt and pepper [CO].05
¼ cup all-purpose flour [CO].04
2 cups beef broth [CO].30
2 Tbsp Dijon mustard [CO].24
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce [CO].06
1 Tbsp soy sauce [CO].10
½ Tbsp brown sugar [CO].02
½ Tbsp dried rosemary [CO].15
½ tsp thyme [CO].05
How much celery do I need to add to the recipe?
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I was looking at the same recipe and googled "what is a sleeve of celery?" and found your question. Then I realized that on the version I'm looking at, when I scrolled down, the author had shown pictures of the ingredients. 4 carrots, 1 onion, and..... 5 CELERY STALKS. So, that's what I'm going with. I also like the answer of eye-balling it according to how much celery you want in proportion to the beef and carrots. I don't like celery that well, but I'm going to use 5 stalks and hope it comes out okay.
My best guess is that the recipe is referring to the bag ("sleeve") that a whole celery heart comes in.
Half a celery heart (about 6-8 stalks?) seems to be on par with the volume of 4 medium carrots.
Here's a Save-A-Lot grocery store listing for "sleeve celery", and the picture is of a celery heart.
This question is actually answered in a comment to the recipe you linked:
kimberly says:
Sorry for silly question, but the ingredient list says ” ½ sleeve
celery [CO].65 “. do you mean 1/2 of a stalk or 1/2 of a bunch of
celery? [...]
Beth M says:
Yes, I meant a half bunch. Sorry about the confusion! :) I used about 4 stalks or so.
They cook down quite a bit.
Also there's a picture of the ingredients used:
So 4-5 stalks appears to be intended amount of celery. A recipe like this though is going to pretty flexible so if that seems like too much or too little it shouldn't be a problem if you go outside that range.
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