Special Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

6 green peppers
1 1/2 lb beef
1/4 c onion
1/4 c celery
3/4 c quaker oats
1 ts salt
1 ts basil
1/2 c tomato juice
10 1/2 oz cream of mushroom soup
3/8 c milk

Instructions

Cut 1/4-inch slice from top of each green pepper; remove seeds. Cook green peppers about 5 minutes in enough boiling salted water to cover them; drain. Pan-fry ground beef, onion and celery until lightly browned. Add remaining ingredients; combine thoroughly. Fill green pepeprs with meat mixture. Stand upright in shallow baking pan; add small amount of water. Bake in preheated moderate oven (350 F.) about 30 minutes. Serve hot with mushroom sauce made by heating together mushroom soup and milk.