American Southern

Onion Custard

Name: Onion Custard
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 12 each onions; 0.25 lb butter; 0.5 lb sugar; 3 lb flour; 3 tbsp flour; 1 pint cream; 1 tbsp cinnamon; 0.5 tsp cloves

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 28. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Instructions

1
Pare and boil twelve large onions; mash when cooked soft, and strain through a sieve; stir in, while hot, 1-4th of a lb of ; beat half a lb with the yelks of six eggs; stir into the three tablespoons , one pint rich ; stir all together until smooth; one tablespoon , half spoon ; stir well; beat the whites of the eggs, and stir it in last; paste your pans with rich pastry; bake in a quick oven.

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