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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
ONION SAUCE.— Peel the onions, and boil them tender ; squeeze the water from them, then chop them, and add to them butter that has been melted, rich and smooth, as will be hereafter directed, but with a little good milk instead of water ; boil it up' once, and serve it for boiled rabbits, par- tridges, scrag, or knuckle of veal, or roast mutton. A turaip boiled with the onions makes them milder. ONION SOUP, Brown.— Skin and cut round ways six large Spanish onions ; fry them in butter till tender, and nicely brown ; take out and drain ; boil an hour in five quarts of water, stirring well ; add pepper and salt ; rub the crumbs of a penny loaf through a colander, and stir it well into the soup ; boil two hours. Ten minutes before it is served, beat the yolks of two eggs with two spoonfuls of vinegar, and a little of the soup, pour in gradually, and stir well. Add cloves, if agreeable. ONION SOUP, White.— Take 30 large onions ; boil in five quarts of water, with a knuckle of veal, a blade or two of mace, and pepper ; when the onions are quite soft, take up, and nib them through a hair sieve, and work % lb. of butterOmelette, Sweet with flour in them ; when the meat is boiled so as to leave the bone, strain the liquor to the onions ; boil gently for half an hour ; serve with a cupful of cream and a little salt ; stir it well when you put in the flour and butter. ONION STEW.— Choose five or six white onions, skin them, and first parboil them in water for 30 minutes ; then chop them very fine, and boil out in milk, add butter, and gravy, or, if you b'ke, a little cream. Do not boil too quickly. Season with salt, mace, and pepper. Thicken with a little rice flour. This kind of stew is very wholesome, and with the addition of a little chopped tender ham, not over fat, and some lean veal, it becomes a »tew of first rate relish. ONIONS, to Stew. — Peel six large onions, fty gently to a flue brown, but do not blacken them ; then put them into a small stewpan with a little weak gravy, pepper and salt ; cover and stew two hours gently. They should be lightly floured first. ONIONS, Offensive Breath caused by Eating. — Chew parsley, or orris root, or doves, to neutralize the smell. Or take 4 drops of concen- trated solution of chloride of soda in a ’wine-glassful of water. Use fresh butter. OPHTHALMIA, or Inflamma- tion of the Eye. — See Eye, page 175 — 5 — 7- It may be caused by cold, sharp winds, intemperance, venery, dust or particles of matter in the eyes, over- taxing the eye, the result of measles, small pox, scrofula, syphilis. f Particles of iron have been removed from the eye by a magnet. Particles of sand, &c. have been removed by in- troduting the mucilage of slippery elm into the eye, the person ' lying on his back, and another injecting it into the corner or part affected, and the patient moving the eye in an -opposite direction ; the mucilage will wash out the particles ; this is very safe, as the slippery elm has a very healing power. A hog’s bristle bent semicircular, is useful to remove particles from the eye. If the inflammatory pains are severe, foment the eye with p. decoction of stramonium'leaves, simmered in spirits. Or use a little weak mixture of