Fried Onions
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the raw onions and place them in a saucepan.
Add 1 tablespoon of sweet drippings.
Fry for 30 minutes, turning often.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Raw onions
- Provide the main body of the dish, softening and browning as they fry.
- Sweet drippings
- Provide fat for frying, carrying heat evenly and helping the onions brown.
The step that matters
Fry for 30 minutes, turning often. Turning keeps the onions from scorching on the pan base while they cook slowly. Steady, moderate heat lets their natural sugars caramelize gradually into a golden color rather than burning.
“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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