The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.].
- Esther Copley
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![ONION SAUCE. [When onion sauce is ordered, the cook should inquire whether her employers like the full flavour of the onions, or as mild as it can he made; and according to that adopt the first or second of the following recipes.] (1.) Take ripe onions with the skins on, merely re- moving the rooty fibres and the tops. Let them lie an hour in salt and water; then throw them into a saucepan of boiling water, and boil them till they are tender. Be sure to allow them plenty of room and water in boiling; when quite tender, skin them ; rub through a colander; season with pepper and salt, and mix with an equal quantity of thick melted butter. This sauce is commonly used with roast shoulder or leg of mutton. ANOTHER WAY. (2.) Observe, the largest onions with, silvery look- ing skins are the mildest. Take six or eight of these; peel and wash them in spring water. Have ready a large tin saucepan of boiling water, into which throw them, and let them boil a quarter of an hour: then pour off the water, and cover them with fresh water from a boiling tea-kettle. In this boil them till they are perfectly tender; then thoroughly drain them in a sieve or potato-steamer. They will now be greatly reduced in size. Put them into a clean saucepan of a suitable size, with half a pint of new milk, two table-spooniuls of cream, an ounce and a half or two ounces of butter rubbed in flour, salt and pepper to taste; stir together till it boils. Some people like it strained I through a sieve or tamis; others like the sub- stance finely beaten up. This is the usual sauce](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21534202_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
