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Young Onion Sauce

A sauce made by boiling young onions in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Young Onion Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the button onions and soak them in water until ready to cook.

Cook

  1. In a stew pan, combine the onions and cold water.

  2. Boil until the onions are tender, about 30 to 60 minutes depending on their size.

Serve

  1. Serve with ½ cup of (272).

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

Button onions
Form the body of the sauce and soften into tender, mild pieces as they cook.

“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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