Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
Creamed Oysters with Green Pepper
Ingredients
Directions
1 pt. small oysters. V tomato, cut fine and
1 pt. cream sauce. drained.
1 green pepper, chopped V2 teaspoon grated onion.
fine after standing in ' 1 stalk celery, cut very fine, scalding water 10 min- utes.
Add oysters to hot sauce, also onion, tomato and pepper. Serve in one dozen toasted crustards garnished with parsley and served with cheese straws.
MUSHROOMS.
Remove stem. Wash, peel caps and break in pieces. Saute in melted butter. While hot season with salt and pepper. Cook in white sauce slowly for five minutes and serve on toast. Mushrooms can be boiled or stewed. Pro- portions :
2 cups mushrooms. 6 pieces round, buttered 2 tablespoons butter. toast.
Canned mushrooms are used in the same way, only they are already prepared for cooking.
CREAM BRAINS AND SWEETBREADS IN PATE
1/2 teaspoon salt. 2 tablespoons butter. 1 pair sweetbreads. Dash of cayenne.
1 pt. brains. IVa cups milk.
Soak brains and sweetbreads in cold water. Boil with lemon juice, salt and pepper. Make sauce with butter and flour. Add brains and sweetbreads. Fill ramekins or pate shells. Sprinkle with parsley.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Bell Pepper | 1 medium (119g) | 31 |
| Mushroom | 1/2 cup sliced (35g) | 15 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Celery | 1 stalk (40g) | 6 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Cayenne | 1 tsp (1.8g) | 6 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Sauce | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27,047 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together3,467 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together16,012 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12,525 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the lemon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, mushroom, butter, cream, sauce, flour, pepper):
- Lemonthe original
- Avocadofits about as well
- Limefits about as well
- Coconutfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against celery, mushroom, butter, cream, sauce, flour, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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