French onion soup

Food & Cooking
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My favorite winter soup, I made my first attempt yesterday.  So the homemade beef stock

3# of soup bones
.75# leeks cleaned
1# carrot cleaned
.5# celery
10 cups water

I sauteed the soup bones and scraped the marrow out.  Roasted them at 275F for 45 mins.  I chopped my veggies added them all to a stock pot and boiled away with bay leaves rosemary and oregano.

Sliced 6 medium white onions
And in 4tbsp of olive oil & 6 tbsp sweet cream butter - homemade if I have the time

Cooked them down for 15 mins with the lid on then add salt pepper and sugar.  Cook for another 30 mins stirring every 5 mins

Add a tablespoon of unbleached flour, red wine and deglaze the pan, bring to a simmer then add 8 cups of beef stock and another bunch of rosemary, oregano, bay leaf and thyme

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Love it. I make a version that take 20 hours in the slow cooker. Onions and a bit of butter go in at 10pm and cook for 12 hours. All the other stuff goes in at 10am and cooks for 8. Turns out really tasty.

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This deliciousness was scooped off covered with a toasted baget rubbed down with garlic topped with gruyere and Swiss cheese
And broiled