If you have some onions and beef broth you can make French Onion Soup. It has been made for centuries and was once considered a soup for poor people. I guess because almost everyone must have had onions available.
The modern version of this soup apparently originated in France in the 17th century.
The onions were caramelized, added to beef stock
and topped with dry bread (croutons) and cheese.
From the reading I have done, the cheese that was used was
gruyere, a cheese made in the Gruyere district of Switzerland. This restaurant
soup recipe calls for using Swiss cheese, a cheese that is a member of the
Gruyere family of cheeses.
The soup is usually finished by placing it in a slow oven to melt the cheese. When serving this soup at the restaurant, often the servers deliver two napkins to the guests. :-)
Preparation time: 30 minutes. Serves 4.
Ingredients:
Instructions:
TA-DA! Enjoy your famous restaurant soup recipe and the company of those you share it with!
Donna
“A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.”
Willa Cather