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White onion soup

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients:

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

Instructions:

Heat the butter and when foaming add the onions and cloves. Let the onions soften but not color at all. Sprinkle over the flour mix well and cook stirring for about 1 minute; then add the nutmeg the bay leaf and the stock. Stir all the time until it boils and see that it is smooth. Simmer until the onions are cooked then gradually add the milk stirring and when that boils lift out the cloves and bay leaf.  . It can now be liquidized or served as is with the cream added and a sprinkling of grated cheese.

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