Boiled Onions

Ingredients

• six Spanish onions
• one-half teaspoonful of salt
• two ounces of butter
• one ounce of flour
• one-half pint of milk
• one gill of cream
• one saltspoonful of pepper
• one lump of saleratus the si2»e of a pea

Method

1. 1

   Soak onions overnight in boiling water with dissolved saleratus.

2. 2

   Boil in cold water for 15 minutes, drain, then boil again for 30 minutes.

3. 3

   Prepare white sauce with butter, flour, milk, and cream.

4. 4

   Pour sauce over drained onions and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Onions. — Take : six Spanish onions, one- half teaspoonful of salt, two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour, one-half pint of milk, one gill of cream, one saltspoonful of pepper, one lump of saleratus the si2»e of a pea

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