onion soup
(from The Virginia House-wife, by Mary Randolph, 1825)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from The Virginia House-wife, by Mary Randolph, 1825)
Ingredients:
12 large onions
3 quarts milk
3 quarts water
bits of veal or fowl
bacon
pepper
salt
1 large spoonful of butter
1 large spoonful of flour
serve with toasted bread
Instructions:
Chop up twelve large onions, boil them in three quarts of milk and water equally mixed, put in a bit of veal or fowl, and a piece of bacon with pepper and salt. When the onions are boiled to pulp, thicken it with a large spoonful of butter mixed with one of flour. Take out the meat, and serve it up with toasted bread cut in small pieces in the soup.
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Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife, is the first cookbook written and published in the US. Published in 1860, Mary's book organized the recipes of her time, which was an improvement over word-of-mouth and in person experience, but they still leave a lot to interpretation. Mary's recipe for "onion soup" reads as follows:
Check out this thread https://civilwartalk.com/threads/onion-soup.124244/#post-1325166 for additional details.
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Included the toasted bread (with cheese!) too.
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