Spanish Onion
A historical recipe from California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book, by Bertha Haffner-Ginger.
A historical recipe
California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book: Selected Mexican and Spanish Recipes, by Bertha Haffner-Ginger. Project Gutenberg eBook #39586.
From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: raw meat or fish. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.
Also printed in: California Mexican-Spanish cookbook (1914).
Source and licence
From California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book, by Bertha Haffner-Ginger. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #39586 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39586). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Mexico. Associated with Mexico by the book is about Mexican cookery (Cooking, Mexican); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.
- Raw or underdone meat. Raw or underdone meat or fish carries a risk. Cook to current safe temperatures.
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Ingredients
- one cup raw liver
- one tablespoon onion juice
- one and one-half cup milk
- one-half teaspoon salt
- one whipped egg
Method
- Grind one cup raw liver to a pulp, remove strings, add one whipped egg, one tablespoon onion juice, one-fourth cup cracker crumbs wet, one and one-half cup milk, one-half teaspoon salt;
- fill boiled onions (centers removed);
- cover with grated cheese, cover and cook until liver is firm.
- Remove cover, brown slightly, serve with a prepared Spanish sauce.