Name: Onions and Cheese
Ingredients: three onions; 82 home recipe book; pepper; salt

Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Onions and Cheese

Ingredients

three onions
82 home recipe book
pepper
salt

Directions

Peel three onions and cut into very thin slices ; lay them in a baking-dish and sprinkle with grated cheese and pepper and salt ; cover the dish closely, and bake till the onions are tender — about half an hour. Then cover the tops with grated bread and cheese and brown slightly. This is a good sub- stitute for meat, and can be eaten with potatoes.
S. H. Matts.
HOME RECIPE BOOK

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

50Calories

1 gProtein

0 gFat

12 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
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 Hamilton, Margaret. 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.

Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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