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Green Peppers

Green peppers are sliced or boiled for salads, garnishes, or cooking.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Green Peppers

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the stem and seeds from the green peppers by cutting around the stem.

  2. Chop or slice the peppers thinly for salads or garnishes.

Soften or peel

  1. For a softer texture, parboil the peppers in boiling salted water for a few minutes.

  2. To remove the skin, place the peppers in a hot oven or on the stove for a few moments.

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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What each ingredient does

Green peppers
Provide the main vegetable, with crisp texture and fresh, slightly bitter flavour when raw.

“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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