Recipe - Daube Donion Red Wine-Cooked Onions

One fourth cup Unsalted butter (One half stick)
3 pound Spanish onions; halved
lengthwise and thinly
cut or sliced up (about 9)
1 tablespoon Granulated sugar
1 One half cup Fullbodied red wine such as
Petit Sirah or
CotesduRhone
Salt and freshly ground
pepper
1 teaspoon Or more red wine vinegar

Heat butter in a 4 quart saucepan (not aluminum) over low heat. Add onions.
Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, 45 minutes. Uncover and increase
heat to medium high, cook , stirring frequently until onions are glazed and
golden brown (20 minutes). Sprinkle with the sugar and boil down, stirring
23 minutes to glaze. Reduce heat to low, add wine and cook, stirring
frequently until onions are very soft and a deep mahogany in color about 1
One half to 2 hours. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper, add vinegar to
counteract any sweetness. Serve hot, lukewarm, or cold. this will keep in
refridgerator 23 days. They can also be frozen. *Note If Spanish onions
are not available, increase the sugar to balance the acicity, add a little
vinegar at the last minute to counteract any excessive sweetness.

NOTES : "A long slow cooking of Spanish onions results in a melting sweet
thick sauce, wonderful with grilled squab or Calf's liver, braised duck, or
toast rounds with drinks." I've made this recipe many times usually as an
appetizer spread on freshly baked french ficelles rounds. I've also used it
with the calf's liver mentioned above. Very different from the usual "fried
onions" this is truely sweet and meltingly delicious.
Recipe by: The Cooking of Southwestern France Paula Wolfert

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #782 by Dianne Weinsaft dee@ncsi.net on Sep
15, 1997