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Bermuda Onions, Stuffed

Stuffed Bermuda onions with minced poultry or veal, baked with butter and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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

Prepare the onions

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

  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 cover the onions with fine bread crumbs.

  2. Bake covered for half an hour.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  4. Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,056 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bermuda onions
Form the shell that holds the filling and softens as it cooks.
Minced poultry or veal
Forms the savoury filling that cooks inside the onions.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a topping that helps shield the surface from drying out in the oven.
Butter
Adds fat that helps prevent the dish from burning and adds richness.

Swap the onion

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

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

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