{"id":210,"date":"2023-11-15T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2023-11-15T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:14:47","slug":"famous-barr-french-onion-soup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/cook-book\/famous-barr-french-onion-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous-Barr French Onion Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a time when department stores had fine restaurants. You, or possibly your mother heard the story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/neiman-marcus-cookies\/\">Neiman-Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie<\/a>, or your grandmother made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.food.com\/recipe\/waldorf-astoria-red-velvet-cake-8972\">Waldorf-Astoria Red Velvet Cake<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Famous-Barr hired Chef Manfred Zettl is credited with creating this recipe even though it was on the Famous Barr Tea Room menu 20 years before he was hired. This is Famous-Barr&#8217;s recipe. It can be found many places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE: This recipe makes 2 quarts of soup<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>3 lbs. peeled onions (a 5lb. bag will yield about 3 lbs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 oz. Unsalted butter or margarine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \u00bd tsp. Freshly ground pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Tbsp. paprika<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Bay leaf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00be cup all purpose flour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 qts beef bouillon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 cup white wine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 tsp salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Directions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Slice onions in 1\/8 inch rings.<br>Melt butter in large soup pot. Add onions and saut\u00e9 slowly for 1 \u00bd hours.<br>Add spices and flour. Cook an additional 10 minutes. Remember to stir and avoid lumps of flour.<br>Add bouillon and wine. Simmer for 2 more hours.<br>Chill or freeze overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Serving<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Defrost enough soup for the number of servings. Bring soup safely to room temperature. Portion into ovenproof bowls. Add one slice of French bread and 1 \u00bd oz. of quality Swiss cheese. Broil until brown. <strong>Caution! Bowls will be hot!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when department stores had fine restaurants. You, or possibly your mother heard the story of the Neiman-Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie, or your grandmother made the Waldorf-Astoria Red Velvet Cake. Famous-Barr hired Chef Manfred Zettl is credited with creating this recipe even though it was on the Famous Barr Tea Room menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}