Name: Spanish Onion
Ingredients: 1 large onion; enough stock to cover the onion

Spanish Onion

Ingredients

1 large onion
enough stock to cover the onion

Directions

Prepare

Remove the outer skin and stalks from the onion.

Cook

Place the onion in cold water and bring to a gentle boil for 1 hour.
Transfer the onion to a saucepan and add enough stock to cover it.
Cook gently until the onion is tender.

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

Onion: Forms the main body of the dish and turns soft and sweet during slow cooking.
Stock: Adds savory flavor and moisture as the onion cooks gently.

“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.