[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks) onion soup...

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

I agree with John Elys, this would be a much more convenient onion 
recipe if you are looking for something like onion soup but period. It's 
very yummy. :)

> There's an onion soup recipe entitled "Soupes Dorres" in _Two 
> Fifteenth Century_.  The original says
> 
> "Nym onyons, mince hem, frie hem in oille de olyve; nym onyons, 
> boille hem with wyn, tost whit bred, and do it in dishes and cast 
> almand mylke thereon and the wyn and the onyons aboue, and gif it 
> forth."
> 
> My wife's redaction (not scaled up for your size of feast, but it 
> should be easy enough) calls for
> 3 medium white onions, sliced into rings
> 2 T olive oil                                     1 C almonds, ground 
> in blender or food processor
> 3 1/2 C white wine                          3 C water to make almond milk
> 1 mini-loaf white French bread
> 
> -- 
>                                     John Elys
>          (the artist formerly known as mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib)
>                                 mka Stephen Bloch
>                                 sbloch at adelphi.edu
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