ONION SAUCE
- 4 onions
- Salt and pepper
- 1 dessertspoonful vinegar
- 1 oz. (1 heaping tablespoonful) butter
- 1 oz. (1 heaping tablespoonful) flour
- ½ teaspoonful sugar
- 2 tablespoonfuls cream
- ½ pint (1 cup) milk
Peel the onions and drop them into plenty of boiling salted water, add the vinegar, and boil for a quarter of an hour. Drain and rinse them in clean warm water and chop them up. Melt the butter in a fireproof dish, stir in the flour, then gradually add the milk, and stir till they boil; add the sugar, onions, and a little salt and pepper; stir till boiling; rub the whole through a sieve, reheat, then add the cream and serve hot.