Peppers Stuffed with Force-meat

Ingredients

• a cupful of fine bread-crumbs
• half a cup of minced boiled ham or tongue
• a suspicion of onion-juice
• salt
• pepper
• a cupful of plain gravy or soup stock

Method

1. 1

   Cut green peppers in two, lengthwise.

2. 2

   Lay them in cold water for fifteen minutes.

3. 3

   Dry them, fill each half with a force-meat made of bread-crumbs, minced ham, onion-juice, salt, and pepper, moisten with melted butter.

4. 4

   Lay the stuffed peppers in a dripping-pan, pour gravy around them, cover, and bake for fifteen minutes.

5. 5

   Uncover and brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 476. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Peppers Stuffed with Force-meat. — Cut green peppers in two, length- wise. Lay them in cold water for fifteen minutes. Dry them, and fill each half with a force-meat made of a cupful of fine bread-crumbs, half a cup of minced boiled ham or tongue, season with a suspicion of onion- juice, salt, and pepper, and moisten with melted butter. Lay the stuffed peppers in a dripping-pan, pour a cupful of plain gravy or soup stock

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