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Pickled Bell Peppers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pickled Bell Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut a slit in the side of each bell pepper and remove all the seeds.

  2. Soak the peppers in brine for two days.

  3. Wash the peppers in cold water and place them in a stone jar.

  4. Boil vinegar with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, then pour it over the peppers.

  5. To serve, stuff each pepper with diced boiled tongue mixed with mayonnaise dressing.

  6. Alternatively, stuff with pickled nasturtiums, grapes, minced onions, red cabbage, or cucumbers, seasoned with mustard seed, root ginger, and mace.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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 (pepper, egg, vinegar, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, grape):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, egg, vinegar, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, grape. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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