ISSUE 27, SAUCES, Part 6: Onion Sauce

An Ancient Preparation

Onion Sauce

The Onion was the most popular of ancient North European vegetables.  In later centuries the cabbage came to rival it.  So onion cookery is among the most primordial elements of European Cookery.  The goal of cooking was to bring forward the sweetness of the onion’s sugars.  It was boiled, fried, baked, broiled, braised in milk, and fermented…