Skip to main content
Main

Stuffed Bermuda Onions

Stuffed Bermuda onions with minced chicken and bread crumbs, baked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 ↓

Stuffed Bermuda Onions

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 the onions

  1. Peel the onions and scoop out the center.

  2. Parboil the onions for 5 minutes, then turn them upside down to drain.

Fill and bake

  1. Mix the minced chicken and bread crumbs, moisten with melted butter, and add salt and pepper to taste.

  2. Fill the onions heaping full with the mixture and sprinkle the tops with buttered bread crumbs.

  3. Place the onions in a pan with 1 inch of water, cover, and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour or until tender.

  4. Remove the cover for the last 5 minutes to brown slightly.

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.

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

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

  2. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

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

  4. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 holds the filling and softens during baking.
Bread crumbs
Bind the filling and absorb melted butter, keeping the stuffing moist.
Minced chicken
Provides the protein body of the filling, firming as it cooks.
Melted butter
Adds moisture and richness to the crumbs and helps the tops brown.

The step that matters

Baking covered in water, then uncovering. Baking covered in a little water steams the onions until tender without drying them. Removing the cover at the end lets surface moisture evaporate so the tops brown lightly. Uncovering too early can leave the onions underdone or dry.

Swap the onion

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

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

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

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesChicken BrothChicken Broth257 recipesChicken SoupChicken Soup156 recipesCreamed ChickenCreamed Chicken89 recipes