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Onion Sauce

A historical recipe from Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907).

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A historical recipe

Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #12069.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. one-half pint of milk
  2. one teaspoonful of salt
  3. one-half pint of cream
  4. one ounce of butter
  5. three good sized onions

Method

  1. Boil three good sized onions, one hour.
  2. Drain and put in a stewpan with one-half pint of milk and one teaspoonful of salt.
  3. Simmer for fifteen minutes, then rub through a sieve and put back in the pan with one-half pint of cream and one ounce of butter.
  4. Simmer ten minutes and serve very hot.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12069 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12069). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.