Here is another pepper recipe. November is national pepper month. Here’s a related recipe from the WPA records. During the Great Depression one of FDR’s New Deal Program was the Works Project Administration (WPA). It hired unemployed writers. America Eats was one of research projects they worked on.
POMPANO Pepper WITH SHRIMP STUFFING Recipe
Ingredients
2 cups cooked shrimp
½ cup chopped mushrooms
2 eggs
1-cup heavy cream
4-Cup sherry
1 boned pompano pepper, salt, paprika
Instructions
Clean the shrimp and put through the meat grinder. Beat the egg and half of the cream together. Mix the shrimp, mushrooms and seasoning together and stir in the cream and egg. Stir to a smooth paste. Put the mixture on one-half of the pompano. Stew the two halves of the fish together and put in a baking dish. Pour the remaining cream over the fish and bake in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes. Serve with the sliced cucumbers, marinated in the French dressing.
(Crosby Gaige, New York World's Fair Cook Book: The American Kitchen, 1939)
