Onion Soup.
- Ingredients—6 Spanish onions.
- 3 oz. of butter.
- 2 quarts of water.
- 3 oz. of flour.
- ½ pint of milk or cream.
- Pepper and salt to taste.
Method.—Peel the onions, and cut them in slices.
Fry them in the butter, but do not let them discolour.
Then boil them in the water until quite soft.
Rub them with their liquor through a hair sieve.
Put this purée into a stewpan on the fire to boil.
When boiling, stir in a thickening of the flour.
Stir and cook well.
Then add the milk or cream, pepper, and salt, to taste.
Let the soup boil up, and it is ready.
Serve with fried croutons of bread.