Name: Bermuda Onions, Stuffed
Ingredients: Bermuda onions; warm, slightly salted water; minced poultry or veal; butter; fine crumbs

Why it works: Onion and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,912 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Bermuda Onions, Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Make a round hole in the top of each onion and remove at least half of the contents.
Place the onions in a dish with warm, slightly salted water and bring to a simmer.
Discard the water and fill the onions with minced poultry or veal.
Add a bit of butter to the dish to prevent burning and sprinkle fine crumbs over the onions.
Bake covered for half an 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.

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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.

Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42,912 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Onion + vealtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,381 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).