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Oignons a la Soubise.—Onions a la Soubise

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Mince
  2. Bechamel
  3. Water
  4. twelve white onions
  5. Rub
  6. Butter
  7. Lump of sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take twelve white onions ;
  2. peel, wash, halve, and trim them;
  3. then mince them very fine, blanching the minced onion in boiling water.
  4. Put them in a pan with a little butter, and, when thoroughly done, and dry, add four spoonfuls of sauce @ la béchamel;
  5. season to your taste, putting in a lump of sugar;
  6. then rub the purée through a sieve, and keep the sauce hot, but without boiling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Sieve
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Credit

From French domestic cookery, combining economy with elegance, and adapted to the use of families of moderate fortune (1825), printed page 251, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b33288665

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.