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Pepper Sandwich

A sandwich with finely chopped green peppers, salt, salad oil, vinegar, and butter spread between bread slices.

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 ↓

Pepper Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the green peppers very finely.

  2. Add a pinch of salt, a little salad oil, and vinegar.

  3. Let the mixture stand for a few minutes, then press it as dry as possible.

  4. Spread the mixture between slices of prepared bread.

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. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Vinegar + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peppers
Provide the main filling, with their crisp texture and fresh, slightly bitter flavor.
Salad oil
Adds fat and mouthfeel, coating the pepper pieces and softening their sharpness.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the oil.
Bread
Forms the sandwich structure and holds the pepper filling.

The step that matters

Press the mixture as dry as possible. Chopped peppers release water as they stand, and excess liquid would soak the bread and make the sandwich soggy. Pressing removes that moisture so the filling stays in place and the bread keeps its texture.

“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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