French Onion Soup

The epitome of French comfort food might be French onion soup, which is made by covering a deeply flavorful beef broth laced with caramelized onions with a raft of toasted bread and Comté cheese, and broiling it until the cheese melts and bubbles. Muster all your patience for cooking the onions extremely slowly, until they’re beautifully browned, for the best flavor. We serve ours in classic white ceramic lion’s head bowls, which hold about 2½ cups (590 ml) of soup each, but any ovenproof b