Onions

It’s hard to imagine cooking without onions. Even though they’re strong when raw, their flavor softens and melds with other ingredients after just a few minutes of cooking.

All of the many kinds of onions—large Spanish onions, red Bermuda onions, and little white onions—can be used for making soup. In addition to these basic types, the sweet onions—Maui, Vidalia, Walla Walla—are becoming more widely available.