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Boiled Onions

A simple dish of onions boiled in salted water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boiled Onions

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the onions.

  2. Cover them with boiling water.

  3. Add 1 teaspoon of salt for every quart of water.

  4. Let the onions boil for 10 minutes.

  5. Drain off all the water.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Onions
Form the dish itself, becoming soft and sweet as they cook in the water.

“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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