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Stuffed Mangoes

A baked dish of peppers filled with a mixture of chopped vegetables and topped with bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Mangoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Remove the stems and seeds from the peppers.

  2. Chop the potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, and onion finely.

  3. Mix the chopped vegetables well and stuff the peppers with the mixture.

Bake

  1. Place the stuffed peppers in a baking dish and fill the space between them with the remaining mixture.

  2. Cover the peppers with sliced bacon.

  3. Pour boiling water over the top and bake at 300°F (150°C) for 1 hour.

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.

Explore the science

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + cabbagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 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

Sweet peppers
Hold the filling and soften as they cook, becoming tender vessels for the stuffing.
Potatoes
Add starch that thickens the filling and gives it a soft, hearty body.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that help form a sauce as the filling cooks.
Cabbage
Adds bulk and texture, softening during baking into the filling.
Onion
Contributes savory aroma and sweetness as it cooks down.
Sliced bacon
Renders fat over the peppers, adding flavor and moisture while browning the top.

The step that matters

Pouring the boiling water over the top before baking. Boiling water starts the cooking and creates steam that keeps the filling and peppers moist in the oven, helping the vegetables cook through evenly without drying out.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, potato, tomato, onion):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, potato, tomato, onion. 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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