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Cecelia Bart a

A sandwich with chopped green onions and green peppers mixed with salad dressing between wheat bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cecelia Bart a

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the chopped green onions and green peppers.

  2. Add salad dressing and mix.

  3. Spread the mixture between thin slices of wheat bread.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

50Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
12 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.

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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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Green onions
Adds a sharp, aromatic bite that brightens the sandwich filling.
Green peppers
Adds crisp texture and fresh, mildly sweet flavour to the filling.

“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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