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- From: DXZU03A@prodigy.com (MR GERALD P MALONEY)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: French Onion Soup
- Date: 16 Apr 1995 21:49:51 -0600
- Organization: Prodigy
- Message-ID: <013.05425976.DXZU03A@prodigy.com>
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- This is a great recipe but it takes about two hours to make. One of
- those hours is spent standing at the stove.
-
- Soup for four people.
- For or more large sweet onions, a bay leaf, 3/4 of a stick of
- unsalted butter, four cups of beef stock, slices of French Bread, or
- other bread and grated cheese (Swiss or American or whatever you
- like) for topping.
-
- Melt the butter in a covered soup pot. Slice the
- onions very thin, add them to the melted butter and stir to coat with
- butter. Cover and sweat over a low heat for about one half an hour.
-
- Uncover, turn up the heat and caramelize the onions. This will take
- a good hour. You have to be there to turn the onion slices or they
- will burn. Continue until they are a rich brown.
- Add heated beef
- broth (I use the type you make from a can by adding water) and a bay
- leaf and simmer for about a half an hour.
- Ladle into oven proof
- bowls, add a little cheese. Top with the bread, add more cheese.
- Put under the broiler until brown and serve
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