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Stuffed Green Peppers

A baked dish of green peppers filled with minced meat and bread, topped with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,924 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stuffed Green Peppers

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the peppers

  1. Wash the green peppers and boil them in water for 5 minutes.

  2. Remove the peppers from the water and rub off the skins with a wet cloth.

  3. Cut off the stem ends and remove the seeds with a large spoon.

Stuff and bake

  1. Stuff the peppers with minced cold meat mixed with an equal amount of moistened stale bread and season with coarse sea salt.

  2. Replace the stems and place the peppers in a deep dish.

  3. Pour cold gravy into the dish until full and bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 30 minutes.

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. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

  3. Pepper + meattop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peppers
Hold their shape as a edible vessel while softening in the oven.
Minced cold meat
Provides the savory, protein-rich filling that sets as it bakes.
Stale bread
Absorbs moisture and keeps the filling tender rather than dense.
Cold gravy
Supplies moisture and flavor as it surrounds the peppers in the dish.

The step that matters

Pour cold gravy until the dish is full. The gravy must surround the peppers so they cook in moist heat rather than drying out. Filling the dish fully keeps the peppers from scorching on exposed sides during the 30 minutes of baking.

“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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