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Stuffed Bell Peppers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the peppers by combining 1 quart vinegar and 1 quart water in a pot.

  2. Scald the peppers in the mixture until they turn white.

  3. Cut off the tops and scrape out the seeds.

  4. Fill the peppers and tie the tops on with string.

  5. Place the filled peppers in stone jars.

  6. In a separate pot, boil 2 gallons of vinegar spiced with chili tepins, white mustard seeds, and finely chopped horseradish.

  7. Pour the hot mixture over the peppers in the jars.

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. Celery + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cucumber + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,281 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,645 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, celery, pepper, tomato, cucumber, mustard, turmeric):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Cauliflowerfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, celery, pepper, tomato, cucumber, mustard, turmeric. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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