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Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed bell peppers filled with sautéed onion, mushrooms, and butter, topped with breadcrumbs and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Cook the onion and mushrooms in butter for about 15 minutes.

  2. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Prepare the peppers

  1. Pour boiling water over the peppers.

  2. Let the peppers stand for about 10 minutes.

  3. Drain the peppers.

Stuff and bake

  1. Stuff the peppers with the onion and mushroom mixture.

  2. Sprinkle the tops with bread crumbs.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 15 minutes.

  4. Serve with brown toast.

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.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. 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

Bell peppers
Act as the edible shell that holds the filling and softens during cooking.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned topping over the stuffed peppers.
Mushrooms
Add savory, meaty bulk and moisture to the filling.
Onion
Adds sweetness and aroma to the filling as it cooks down in butter.
Butter
Carries the onion and mushrooms, adding richness and flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Draining the peppers after boiling. Peppers left wet release extra water into the filling, diluting its flavor and making the bread crumb topping soggy rather than lightly browned. Drain them well before stuffing.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, mushroom, butter, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, mushroom, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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