Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Onion Custard


Ingredients

  • Ten or twelve mild onions
  • Four eggs
  • One pint of milk
  • Grated nutmeg
  • Butter

Directions

  1. Peel and slice the onions.
  2. Fry them in fresh butter, draining them well when you take them up.
  3. Mince the onions as fine as possible.
  4. Beat the eggs until very thick and light.
  5. Stir them gradually into the milk in turn with the minced onions.
  6. Season the whole with plenty of grated nutmeg and stir it very hard.
  7. Put into a deep white dish and bake it about one hour.
  8. Send it to the table as a side dish to be eaten with poultry.
  9. It is a French preparation, and will be found very nice by those who have no dislike to onions.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Virginia Young
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2021

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