153. Onion Purée Sauce

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (7)
for the sauce
Instructions (8)
  1. Peel and cut six onions in slices.
  2. Put the sliced onions in a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, a teaspoonful of salt, one of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of pepper.
  3. Place on a slow fire to simmer till in a pulp, stirring them now and then to prevent them getting brown.
  4. Add one tablespoonful of flour and a pint of milk.
  5. Boil till a proper thickness, which should be a little thicker than melted butter.
  6. Pass through a tammy.
  7. Warm again and serve with mutton cutlets, chops, rabbits, or fowl.
  8. If not passed through a tammy, it will do for roast mutton and boiled rabbit as onion sauce.
Original Text
153. Onion Purée Sauce.—Peel and cut six onions in slices; put in a stewpan, with a quarter of a pound of butter, a teaspoonful of salt, one of sugar, a half one of pepper; place on a slow fire to simmer till in a pulp, stirring them now and then to prevent them getting brown, then add one tablespoonful of flour, a pint of milk, and boil till a proper thickness, which should be a little thicker than melted butter; pass through a tammy, warm again, and serve with mutton cutlets, chops, rabbits, or fowl; by not passing it, it will do for roast mutton and boiled rabbit as onion sauce.
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