King's Arms Tavern-Like Creamed Onions
Recipe: #15220
October 26, 2014
Categories: Side Dishes, Peanut, Onions, Christmas Easter, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"This is similar to the recipe for creamed onions served at the King's Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg. The Tavern version (from a 1970s cookbook of Old Williamsburg recipes) includes extra salt which I omit. The salted peanuts make it salty enough for my taste."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (615.6 g)
- Calories 332
- Total Fat - 10.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.2 g
- Cholesterol - 28.7 mg
- Sodium - 14371.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 52.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7.7 g
- Sugars - 24.9 g
- Protein - 9.8 g
- Calcium - 267.7 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 32.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cook the onions in boiling salted water until tender; drain.
Step 2
Melt the butter over medium heat and stir in the flour.
Step 3
Add the milk and continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce is smooth and slightly thickened.
Step 4
Put the onions in a greased 1-quart casserole and pour the sauce over them.
Step 5
Stir in the whole peanuts.
Step 6
Top with the crumbs and chopped peanuts.
Step 7
Bake at 400° approximately 15 minutes until bubbly and lightly browned.
Tips
No special items needed.