Onion Cake

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840

Source: The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (10)

Onion Cake. ↝ Onions, sweet, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
onions ↝ Onions, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
stewed onions
eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
fine dried bread crumbs ↝ Bread, crumbs, dry, grated, seasoned [Baked Products]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
cream ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]
common pie-crust
an egg ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (3)

Slice onions thin; set them in butter till they are soft, and, when they are cold, put into a pan to a quart basin of these stewed onions three eggs, three spoonfuls of fine dried bread crumbs, salt, and three spoonfuls of cream.
Put common pie-crust in a tin; turn it up all round, like a cheesecake, and spread the onions over the cake;
beat up an egg, and with a brush spread it in, and bake it of a fine yellow.

Original Text

Onion Cake.

Slice onions thin; set them in butter till they are soft, and, when they are cold, put into a pan to a quart basin of these stewed onions three eggs, three spoonfuls of fine dried bread crumbs, salt, and three spoonfuls of cream. Put common pie-crust in a tin; turn it up all round, like a cheesecake, and spread the onions over the cake; beat up an egg, and with a brush spread it in, and bake it of a fine yellow.

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