Baked Onions

Ingredients

• Use the large Spanish onion
• slightly salted water
• buttered tissue paper

Method

1. 1

   Wash onions but do not peel.

2. 2

   Boil in salted water for an hour, replacing water as it evaporates.

3. 3

   Drain and dry, then wrap in buttered tissue paper and bake in a slow oven for about an hour.

4. 4

   Peel, place in a dish, brown slightly, baste with butter, season with salt and pepper, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Use the large Spanish onion, as best for this purpose; wash them clean, but do not peel, and put into a saucepan with slightly salted water ; boil an hour, replacing the water with more boiling hot as it evaporates ; turn off the water and lay the onions on a cloth to dry them well ; roll each 190 VEGETABZEB. one in a piece of buttered tissue paper

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