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Title: Onion Soup
Categories: Soups
Yield: 4 Servings

1 c Gruyere or Swiss cheese;
-grated
1 c Parmesan; grated
12 sl French bread (1/2"); up to
-12 depending on size of
-loaf,
2 tb Butter; melted

Toast bread in preheated 300°F oven until dry and lightly browned.

In a small skillet, beat 1 tb butter and sauté the whole onion on all
sides until very brown, almost burned. Set aside the onion serves to
give color to the broth.

In a heavy based saucepan, melt the remaining butter and sauté onions
until they are dark gold, stirring often.

Add flour and stir continually for five minutes while the flour
browns. Add broth and the whole onion , simmer covered (to retain
onion flavor) for 20 minutes.

Add salt and pepper.

Combine Gruyere and Parmesan cheeses. Mound thickly on each piece of
toasted bread. Drip a little melted butter over each toast.

Ladle hot soup into bowls; lay cheese toasts on top of soup; put
bowls on cookie sheet and slide under broiler for three or four
minutes or until cheese is browned.

Serve immediately.

Recipe by Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>

Recipe FROM: <news:661ab910$0$6555$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
<news:rec.food.cooking/1507261>

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