This section is from the book "Hanover Cook Book", by The Library Association. Also available from Amazon: The Hanover Cook Book.
Remove skins, slice onions; cook until tender and drain. Pour over the onions a sauce made of 1 cup sweet milk, 1 tablespoonful of flour mixed with salt and pepper to taste. E. F. H.
Peel the onions under water and scoop out from the top a portion of the center. Parboil five minutes and then turn upsidedown to drain. Make a stuffing of the chopped onion taken from the centers, soft-ened bread crumbs, salt, pepper and a generous amount of butter. Fill the onions heaping full and sprinkle the top with buttered crumbs. Cover and cook till tender, almost an hour, in a pan containing a small quantity of water. Let them brown a very little before taking from the oven. A. B. C.
Peel and boil in salted water. Drain and put into a baker, a layer of onions, bits of butter, and a sauce made of 1 tablespoonful of flour and 1/2 cup of cream. Then another layer of onions until dish is full, sprinkle the top with bread crumbs and bits of butter. Bake in a slow oven nearly 1 hour, have enough milk to nearly cover.
Mrs. A. H. Secrist.
 
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