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Browned Onions for Gravy

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 2

Use for flavoring and coloring gravies, soups, etc.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 384. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three medium- sized onions, put in stew-pan with half pint water, boil five minutes add half pound moist sugar and simmer gently till mixture is a dark brown. Then strain it into three-fourths pint boiling vinegar

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