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Bermuda Onions Stuffed

A baked dish of peeled Bermuda onions filled with minced veal or chicken, seasoned, topped with breadcrumbs and butter, and cooked in boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bermuda Onions Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Peel the onions and remove the center, leaving a thick shell.

Stuff and bake

  1. Fill the centers with minced veal or chicken and season with salt, pepper, and other condiments.

  2. Cover the tops with bread crumbs and place a piece of butter on each.

  3. Place the stuffed onions in a buttered baking pan and add boiling water.

  4. Bake until the onions are tender.

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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 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

What each ingredient does

Bermuda onions
Form the edible shell that softens and holds the stuffing during baking.
Minced veal or chicken
Provides the savory meat filling that cooks within the onion shells.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, lightly browned topping over the stuffing.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the crumb topping brown.
Boiling water
Creates steam in the pan so the onions cook through and stay moist.

The step that matters

Bake until the onions are tender. Onions must cook long enough to soften fully, since undercooked onion stays sharp and firm. The boiling water in the pan creates steam that helps the shells become tender while the filling heats through.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, bread, butter. 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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