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White Onion Soup (Irish) Recipe

Yields1 ServingPrep Time5 minsCook Time40 minsTotal Time45 mins

A traditional Irish soup made with white onions, potatoes, and parsley.

 2 tb Butter
 1 l Chicken or pork stock
 1 lb Onions, thinly sliced
 300 ml Milk
 2 ea Cloves
 1 ea Salt and pepper
 2 tb Flour (heaping)
 150 ml Cream
 1 pn Powdered mace or nutmeg
 2 tb Grated cheese (optional)
 1 ea Bay leaf
1

Heat the butter, and when foaming add the onions and cloves.

2

Let theonions soften, but not color at all.

3

Sprinkle over the flour, mix welland cook, stirring, for about 1 minute;then add the nutmeg, the bay leafand the stock.

4

Stir all the time until it boils, and see that it issmooth.

5

Simmer until the onions are cooked, then gradually add the milk,stirring, and when that boils lift out the cloves and bay leaf.

6

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7

It can now be liquidized, or served as is with the cream added, and asprinkling of grated cheese.