Name: Sweet Pepper Gravy
Ingredients: 1 cup chopped sweet pepper; 1 pint gravy

Sweet Pepper Gravy

A gravy made by adding sweet pepper and its juice to the pan before the meat is done, then cooking until the meat is removed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

Sweet Pepper Gravy

Ingredients

1 cup chopped sweet pepper
1 pint gravy

Directions

Add the chopped sweet pepper and its juice to the gravy pan before the meat is done.
Cook until the meat is removed.
Make the gravy in the usual way.
Serve the peppers without straining them.

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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What each ingredient does

Sweet pepper: Adds sweetness and a fresh, vegetable aroma, and its juice adds moisture to the gravy.
Gravy: Forms the sauce base that carries the flavour of the pepper and meat.

“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.