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Bermuda Onions, Stuffed

Stuffed Bermuda onions with minced poultry or veal, butter, and fine crumbs, baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,912 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Bermuda Onions, Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the onions

  1. Make a round hole in the top of each onion and remove at least half of the insides.

  2. Place the onions in a dish with warm, slightly salted water and bring to a simmer.

  3. Discard the water and fill the onions with minced poultry or veal.

Bake

  1. Add a bit of butter to the dish to prevent burning and sprinkle fine crumbs over the onions.

  2. Cover and bake for 30 minutes.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Onion + vealtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

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

  3. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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 as it bakes.
Minced poultry or veal
Provides the savory filling that cooks through inside the onion shells.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps prevent the dish from burning.
Fine crumbs
Form a topping that can gently brown and add texture over the filling.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Onionthe original
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Shallotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, 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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