Name: Stuffed Spanish Onions
Ingredients: one-third part of moistened bread crumbs; half lengthwise; salt; pepper

Why it works: Bread and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Stuffed Spanish Onions

Ingredients

one-third part of moistened bread crumbs
half lengthwise
salt
pepper

Directions

Peel and cut out a part of the inside, parboil them for five minutes, drain, fill with any kind of force meat, mixed with one-third part of moistened bread crumbs. Season with salt, pepper and melted butter, cover the top with buttered crumbs ; cook in the oven till tender.
Carrots when young and tender make a very de- licious vegetable. Wash and scrape them, cook in boiling salted water. Serve with butter, pepper and salt, or a cream sauce. Cut in slices, cubes, strips or rounds, with a potato cutter if you like, before boil- ing. Or cut in half lengthwise and brown in hot butter.
Wash, pare, cut in slices or fancy shapes. Cook and season the same as carrots, or mash and season with melted butter, pepper and salt.
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

461Calories

13 gProtein

1 gFat

96 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Norton, Caroline Trask. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Brown Bread461 recipes

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Stuffed Spanish Onions