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Green Peppers

A baked dish of green peppers filled with cauliflower, mushrooms, and cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Green Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Cook the cauliflower until tender.

  2. Sauté the mushrooms in butter until cooked.

  3. Cut the cauliflower into small pieces and mix with the mushrooms and cream sauce.

Stuff and bake

  1. Soak the green peppers in hot water for 10 minutes.

  2. Fill the green peppers with the cauliflower mixture.

  3. Place the filled peppers in a pan and bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until heated through.

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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cauliflower + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,113 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cauliflower
Forms the bulk of the filling, adding body and a mild vegetable flavour.
Cream sauce
Binds the filling and adds moisture and richness so it stays creamy when baked.
Mushrooms
Add savoury, earthy flavour and a meaty texture to the filling.
Green peppers
Act as edible cups that hold the filling and soften as they bake.

The step that matters

Soak the green peppers in hot water. Soaking softens the pepper walls so they bend without cracking when filled and then cook through in the oven.

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sauce, mushroom, pepper, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce, mushroom, pepper, butter. 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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