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Peppers Stuffed with Oysters

A pepper stuffed with oysters, onions, bread crumbs, and butter, baked and served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Peppers Stuffed with Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the pepper and onion very finely.

  2. Parboil the oysters, drain, and cut them into small pieces.

  3. Soak the bread crumbs in the oyster liquor, then press out the excess liquor.

Make the filling

  1. Sauté the pepper and onion in butter until light brown.

  2. Combine the sautéed mixture with the oysters and bread crumbs, and season with salt and pepper.

Bake and serve

  1. Stuff the mixture into the peppers and top with buttered cracker crumbs.

  2. Bake until the peppers are tender.

  3. Serve with tomato sauce.

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 + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Provide the main filling, adding savoury flavour and a tender, moist texture when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the oyster liquor and help bind the filling so it holds together when stuffed.
Butter
Cooks the pepper and onion, adding richness and browning them lightly for flavour.
Pepper
Softens during baking to hold the filling and adds mild, sweet vegetable flavour.

The step that matters

Press out the excess oyster liquor from the bread crumbs. Bread crumbs soaked in too much liquid make the filling wet and loose, so it may not hold its shape in the pepper or bake up firm.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, oyster, bread, butter, tomato, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Cucumberfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, oyster, bread, butter, tomato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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