Onion Soup
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 12 whole onions
- 1 1/2 quarts milk
- 1 1/2 quarts water
- veal or fowl
- bacon
- pepper
- salt
- 1 large spoonful butter
- 1 large spoonful flour
- bread
Instructions
- Chop up twelve large onions and 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.