Tourin Bordelais

Name: Tourin Bordelais (Creamy Onion Soup)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 6 slices French bread, toasted; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; Butter; ½ cup crème fraîche, or whipping cream; 3 egg yolks; Salt and pepper to season; 2 cups chicken broth; 2 cups water; 2 tablespoons flour; 4 large onions, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 4 tablespoons bacon drippings

Creamy Onion Soup

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

In the Bordeaux area onion soup includes garlic. Also, it is a cream of onion soup and therefore differs strikingly from the bouillon-like onion soup of Paris.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons bacon drippings
4 large onions, chopped
2 cloves

Europe
France
Bordeaux
Soup
Mediterranean

Method

Put bacon fat into a large saucepan. Add onions and garlic. Stir-cook until transparent and soft. Do not let mixture brown. Stir in flour. Cook 1 minute or so. Add broth and water. Stir until it comes to a boil. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 30 minutes with lid set ajar.
Beat together yolks, crème, and lemon juice. Remove soup from heat. Gradu