Onion Soup
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 12 whole onions
- 1.5 quarts milk
- 1.5 quarts water
- veal or fowl
- bacon
- pepper
- salt
- 1 large spoonful butter
- 1 large spoonful flour
- bread
Instructions
- Chop twelve large onions. Boil them in three quarts of milk and water mixed equally together with a bit of veal or fowl and a piece of bacon. Season with pepper and salt. Continue boiling until the onions are reduced to a pulp. Thicken the soup by mixing a large spoonful of butter with one of flour and stirring it in. Remove the meat from the soup. Serve the soup with toasted bread cut into small pieces.