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Onions, Spanish, Boiled

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's household management, by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton (1907).

United Kingdom

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a teaspoonful of salt

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.

Method

  1. Ingredients.
  2. — Spanish onions, white sauce (see Sauces, No.
  3. 223), salt and pepper.
  4. Method.
  5. — Peel the onions, put them into cold water, bring to the boilr and strain.
  6. Have ready a saucepan of boiling water, add to it a teaspoonful of salt, put in the onions, and boil gently from i| to 2 hours, according to size.
  7. Or they may be steamed, in which case about £ an hour longer must be allowed.
  8. Serve with the white sauce poured over them.
  9. Time.
  10. — From i £ to 2^ hours.
  11. Average Cost, 2d.
  12. to 3d.
  13. per Ib.
  14. Seasonable from October to April.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Steamer
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Sieve
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 850, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

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.