The Onion
The fact is realized that there will be many, who, in looking over these recipes, will object to the onion. They are informed that no perfect sauce was ever made without one or more of the onion family being used as an ingredient. The so-called American abhorrence of the onion in cookery, is an affectation. Many of the most bitter dissenters have been seen revelling in sauces fairly reeking with the flavor of the odoriferous bulb and its cousins.