Onions
Ingredients
Directions
Peel the button onions and place them in water until ready to boil.
In a stewpan, add the onions and cold water.
Boil until tender, which will take 30 to 60 minutes depending on their size and age.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Button onions
- Softens during boiling into a tender, mildly sweet vegetable.
The step that matters
Boiling until tender. Heat breaks down the onions' cell walls slowly, so size and age change how long they take. Test by piercing with a knife; stopping too early leaves them firm and sharp-tasting.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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