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Onion
Sauce
Ingredients:
2 medium
onions, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
salt and black pepper to taste
Preparation:
- Melt the butter, add onions
and cook until golden brown.
- Add flour, stir well and
gradually add milk, salt and pepper.
- Let it boil for 10 to 15
minutes, than add lemon juice and
pass everything through a sieve.
- Serve hot poured over meat or
separately in a sauce bowl.
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Did You Know?
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Why
do onions make you cry?
As onions are sliced, cells are broken open. Onion cells have two
sections, one with enzymes called allinases, the other with sulfides.
When the enzymes mix with the sulfides (amino acid sulfoxides),
sulfenic acids are formed. Sulfenic acid is unstable and decomposes
into a volatile gas called syn-ropanethial-S-oxide. The gas then
dissapates through the air and eventually reaches one's eye, where it
will react with the water to form a mild sulfuric acid. The sulfuric
acid irritates the nerve endings in the eyes, making them sting.
The release of gas can thus best be prevented by cutting the onions
under running tap water or completely under water. This is not very
practical of course. For more tips and information, please check links
in External links section.
Different species of onions will release different amounts of sulfenic
acids, thus some will cause more tear formation than others.
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