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Italian Onion Soup

From The Rural cook book, 1907

Serves 2

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

  • six young but fully grown onions
  • a cupful of dry, fine bread crumbs
  • a cup of milk
  • a great spoonful of butter
  • one of flour

Method

  1. Boil onions in two waters, replacing the first after 10 minutes.

  2. When tender, add bread crumbs and cook for five more minutes.

  3. Rub the mixture through a colander into a bowl.

  4. Return to heat, add a roux made from butter and flour, and stir in hot milk.

  5. Serve with Parmesan cheese.

Nutrition per serving

497Calories
18 gProtein
92 gCarbs
13 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Italian Onion Soup. — Boil six young but fully grown onions in two waters, turning off the first at the end of 10 minutes' boil, and replac- ing with fresh hot water. There should be a quart of the second water. When the onions are tender, add a cupful of dry, fine bread crumbs and cook gently for five minutes more. Pour the contents of the kettle into a colander and rub the onions and crumbs through it into the liquid in the bowl below. Return all to the fire, simmer for a minute and stir into the soup a."roux," made by heating to a bubbling cream a great spoon- ful of butter with one of flour in a frying pan. Have ready heated in another saucepan a cup of milk
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