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Green Pepper

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and celery 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 ↓

Green Pepper

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the sweet peppers in strong brine for 2 weeks.

  2. Slit each pepper on one side and remove the seeds.

  3. Soak the seeds in vinegar and water or weak vinegar for another 2 weeks.

  4. Stuff the peppers with bruised black and white mustard seeds, bruised coriander seed, fine celery seed, sliced celery, and sliced cucumbers.

  5. Tie the stuffed peppers with soft yarn string.

  6. Place them in a jar and pour vinegar over 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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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. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Mustard + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,281 recipes

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

  3. Coriander + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together875 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the coriander

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

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Corianderthe original

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

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