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Trumese Baked with Onion Dressing

A baked trumese dish with onion and breadcrumb dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Trumese Baked with Onion Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

Layer and first bake

  1. Place layers of broiled trumese in a pan with a little water.

  2. Cover with a dressing made from 2 cups bread crumbs, 2 chopped onions, 1 tablespoon butter or oil, and 2 beaten eggs.

  3. Bake covered for ½ hour.

  4. Uncover and brown on top.

Make gravy

  1. Make gravy in the pan by adding consommé and thickening after the trumese and dressing are removed.

Top and finish

  1. Lay slices of stale bread over trumese.

  2. Cover with sliced onions and a little oil, then sprinkle with salt.

  3. Bake 1 hour covered.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

577Calories
20 gProtein
7 gFat
106 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Salt1 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 Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + eggtop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Onion and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 23,333 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Form the body of the dressing and soak up moisture as it bakes.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften and cook into the dish.
Eggs
Bind the dressing so it holds together when sliced and served.

The step that matters

Uncover and brown on top. Baking covered traps steam, so the surface stays pale and soft. Uncovering lets moisture escape and the surface brown through dry heat, which adds colour and flavour.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, egg):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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