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Creamed Oysters with Green Pepper

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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. 1 pt. small oysters. V tomato, cut fine and

  2. 1 pt. cream sauce. drained.

  3. 1 green pepper, chopped V2 teaspoon grated onion.

  4. fine after standing in ' 1 stalk celery, cut very fine, scalding water 10 min- utes.

  5. Add oysters to hot sauce, also onion, tomato and pepper. Serve in one dozen toasted crustards garnished with parsley and served with cheese straws.

  6. MUSHROOMS.

  7. 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 :

  8. 2 cups mushrooms. 6 pieces round, buttered 2 tablespoons butter. toast.

  9. Canned mushrooms are used in the same way, only they are already prepared for cooking.

  10. CREAM BRAINS AND SWEETBREADS IN PATE

  11. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 2 tablespoons butter. 1 pair sweetbreads. Dash of cayenne.

  12. 1 pt. brains. IVa cups milk.

  13. 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)

685Calories
18 gProtein
19 gFat
111 gCarbs

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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0

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

By Mary Elizabeth Lyles Wilson (1860–1924). 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked 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):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. 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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