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Onions Stuffed with Peanut Butter

Onions are hollowed, filled with a mixture of chopped onion, bread crumbs, peanut butter, salt, and paprika, then baked and basted with hot milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Onions Stuffed with Peanut Butter

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the onions

  1. Peel the onions and boil until tender.

  2. Cut out the center of each onion to leave a thin shell.

Fill and bake

  1. Chop the removed onion and mix with an equal quantity of bread crumbs, peanut butter, salt, and paprika.

  2. Fill the onion shells with the mixture.

  3. Baste with hot milk before cooking.

  4. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

  5. Baste with hot milk twice during cooking.

Serve

  1. Serve with cream sauce, using the milk from the dish as part of the liquid.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Onion + peanuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,043 recipes

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

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Peanut + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanut butter
Adds richness and a nutty flavor that carries through the filling.
Soft fine bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the filling body so it holds its shape.
Hot milk
Provides moisture during baking so the filling and shells do not dry out.

The step that matters

Cut out the center of each onion to leave a thin shell. Cooked onions are soft and easily torn. Removing the center carefully keeps the shell intact to hold the filling, while leaving it thin enough to cook through during baking.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, peanut, butter, milk. 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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