Cheese and Onions

Ingredients

• Half a pound of good cheese
• four ounces of onions
• half an ounce of butter
• a little pepper
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Peel and chop onions.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a dish, add onions with pepper and salt, cover, and stew in the oven until tender.

3. 3

   Spread on a flat dish, cover with thin slices of cheese, toast quickly, and serve immediately.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a little salt, and white or Cayenne pepper ; when tender, drain it in a colander, and cut it in pieces about two inches long ; then put it into a saucepan with the Parmesan, or any mild good cheese, grated, with the butter, the cream, and a little pepper ; stir, or rather shake it over a brisk fire and when the whole is well incorporated, serve immediately. No. 222. — Fondue. Half a pound of good toasting cheese, three eggs, half-ounce of butter, quarter of a pint of new milk, and three ounces of bread crumbs. Boil the milk, and pour it upon the bread crumbs ; cover it with a plate for quarter of an hour ; stir in the butter, the cheese, grated, and the yolks of three eggs, well beaten ; mix all well together, and just before it is put in the oven, add the w'hites of the eggs, well beaten ; bake in a mould in rather a hot oven ; when done, turn it out on a dish, and serve im- mediately. No. 223. — Cheese and Onions. Half a pound of good cheese, four oimces of onions, and half an ounce of butter. Peel and chop some Portugal onions ; melt the butter in a dish ; put in the onions with a little pepper and salt ; cover, and set them in the oven to stew ; when tender, but not soft, VEGETARIAN COOKERY. 121 spread on a flat dish, and cover them with good toasting cheese, cut in thin slices, without crust ; toast it quickly, and serve immediately. If the common onions be used, they should be cut in two, and boiled a few minutes. No. 224. — Cheese and Onions. Half a pound of cheese and four ounces of onions

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