We once, with a friend who shared our martyrdom, tried to make onion soup in exact conformity with what was set down in an Oracle of Cookery, which a foul mischance had placed across our path.
Mr. Rasmussen: Did you say the same fly attacks the onion and the cabbage?
In the onion you have a different shaped leaf, and the injury is not so apparent.
Incidentally, the inheritance of various types and colors of the onion is under observation.
When you use the spray it would probably be all right to use the sodium arsenite for the onion and the lead arsenate for the cabbage.
The spray that was used for the onion maggot and was devised over in Wisconsin is: One-fifth ounce of sodium arsenite, one-half pint of New Orleans molasses and one gallon of water.
Onion bulbs of various types have self-fertilized, and desirable fixed strains will be separated if possible.
Mr. Moore: The onion has two different flies, one which is black in color, with light colored bands across the wings, and that one passes the winter as a larva in the old onions left in the field.
Mr. Rasmussen: We have controlled the onion maggots almost entirely, but the cabbage maggots are very difficult.
Mr. Rasmussen: What is the spray for the cabbage and onion maggot?
Mr. Moore: It was peculiar that they started to work on the onion maggot in Wisconsin at the same time we started on the cabbage maggot here.
If garlic is not to be obtained onion may take its place, but is a less active agent.
Another interesting and valuable point about the wild onion is that the spring bulbs rarely produce heads; consequently, if the infested land is plowed in the fall, a spring oat crop practically free of onions can always be secured.
This was sprayed over the onions and was very successful in controlling the onion maggot.
The secret of the vitality of the wild onion lies in the two sorts of underground bulbs.
It is rather peculiar that we started work here about the same time on the cabbage maggot that they started work on the onion maggot along similar lines in Wisconsin.
Many like a Hamburg steak rare, while others prefer it well done; others there are who think they like it rare, highly seasoned with onion and other pungent seasoning.
Put a small quantity of oil in a frying-pan; add just onion enough to give it flavor, and toss the chicken about in this a moment.
Put the onion and ham in a pan, and fry; add the other ingredients, and simmer until a thick pulp; add this to an omelet just before folding it and turning out on a dish.
I cannot tell what gives the best general idea of it, but there are mingled with it many wafts of a vigorous enjoyment, which touch you, I think, at a higher point in your nature than cream cheese or onion sauce.
Well-grown leeks have a very agreeable and not very strong onion flavor.
One ounce of onion seed will sow 100 feet of drill.
Mixed with lime, it has proved effective in the control of onionsmut when drilled into the rows with the seed.
Onion seed should always be fresh when sown--preferably of the last year's crop.
The plant is one of the onion family, and is used mostly as flavoring for soups.
A small perennial of the onion family, used for flavoring.
Jimmy was at the head of the green onion department.
Neither did he understand why she gave him an onion poultice for his aching ear, and lard to rub into his chapped hands.
Even if Aunt Martha were willing to let her go, she hadn't the courage, after her former experience, to trudge through the onion fields alone, in the dark.
Nearer and clearer, she caught the gleam of headlights that lit up a fan-shaped space of dust and dark green onion tops.
She began to pile the soiled dishes upon it, helter-skelter, with as much noise as if she were a raw Polish girl, just out of the onion fields.
She flew, stiff-legged, through the crumbly dust and the strong-smelling onion tops, into the road.
She just plumped down flat among the onion tops and lay gasping.
The sun was sinking toward the western hills, but the air was hot and breathless, and the smell of the onion fields caught her by the throat and almost choked her.
Meantime the brave Jackie, with her heart in her throat, was making the best of her way through the vast blackness of the onion fields, back to the Conway farm.
According to astrologers, the Onionis under the dominion of Mars.
The Onion was formerly held in the highest esteem as a religious symbol in the mysterious solemnities and divinations of the Egyptians and Hindus.
By the ancient Egyptians the Onionwas regarded as a plant partaking of a sacred character and as a symbol of the Universe.
It is thought that, as with the Egyptians, or with the English Druids, the Onion was an emblem of the deity, and to this day it is a custom in some parts of England for girls to divine by it.
Biblical commentators say that the Leek (Allium Porrum), as well as the Onion and Garlic, was included among those Egyptian luxuries after which the Children of Israel pined.
On the other hand, the Rose is reported to love the Onion and Garlic, and to put forth its sweetest blooms when in propinquity to those plants; and a bond of fellowship is fabled to exist between a Fig-tree and Rue.
And why should you not eat an onion properly, John?
If he is eating an onion, he eats it as an onion should be eaten.
Or with stronger seasoning, with onion and pepper and cayenne, you may create a savoury beyond compare.
It is no small achievement to give distinctive character to national salads, to-day that the virtue of vinegar and oil and the infallibility of incomparable onion are universally acknowledged and respected.
Wide is the gulf fixed between the delicate sauce of a Prince de Soubise, and the coarse, unsavoury sausage and onion mess of the Strand.
However, not alone in sauce can the condescending onion come to the aid of dull, substantial flesh and fowl.
An onion or garlic-scented atmosphere hovers alike over the narrow calli of Venice, the cool courts of Cordova, and the thronged amphitheatre of Arles.
If life holds nothing better than the onion in the right hand, it offers nothing sadder and more degrading than the onion brutalised.
When the little delicate spring onion is smelt in the land, a shame, indeed, it would be to waste its tender virginal freshness upon sauce and soup.
With onion sauce it may be becomingly adorned, or again, with simple cabbage, boiled, chopped small, and stewed in butter.
And some men there have been in the past to rank the onion as a root sacred to Aphrodite: food for lovers.
Gone is the time when his favourite salad was a horror unspeakable: an onion and a lettuce served whole, chopped up by himself, smothered in salt and pepper, and fairly sluiced with vinegar.
Chop an onion and two green peppers, and put in a casserole with two ounces of butter.
When both chicken and onion are nicely colored set on top of the stove, add one-half glass of white wine, cover the pot, and simmer for five minutes.
Then put the saddles in a roasting pan with a sliced onion and carrot, and a little butter on top, and roast in a hot oven for about ten minutes, or until brown.
Put two ounces of butter and a finely choppedonion in vessel and simmer until yellow.
Put in a buttered pan one-half of an onion chopped, three chopped shallots, a little chopped garlic and parsley, two tomatoes cut in small squares and a bouquet garni.
Put in roasting pan five pounds of veal bones, one carrot and one onion sliced, a piece of leek, a piece of celery, a bouquet garni, and three ounces of butter.
Parboil one carrot and one celery root cut in strips, and one onion sliced fine.
Garnish with a lemon cut in half, two hard-boiled eggs cut in two, some chopped onion on a small leaf of lettuce, and another small leaf filled with small French capers.
Put in the roasting pan one sliced onion and one carrot.
Joint a chicken and put in a saute pan with two ounces of butter, season with salt and a little paprika, simmer for five minutes; then add a sliced onion and simmer slowly for ten minutes with the cover over the pan.
I flipped a hamburger and a slice of onion onto a plate and picked up the ketchup and said, "I've reached the dangerous age.
I dowsed ketchup over the hamburger, threw the onion on and closed it.
There was nothing like an onion boiled really soft, and made into a poultice for ear-ache.
Tartarin thought the dinner delicious although the fumes of the onion soup infected the atmosphere, and the famous spirit-lamp, which ought to have made its pint of coffee in three minutes, refused to perform its functions.
All of a sudden a flame shot up before him, together with an appetizing smell of onion soup.
When you go digging for bait," said Mary, "I wonder if the two of you could make it convanient to spade an onion bed.
Just why that cry, and the sight of Dannie Macnoun racing toward the river, his spade lying on the upturned earth of her scarcely begun onion bed, should have made her angry, it would be hard to explain.
Boil theonion five minutes in a pint of salted water.
Put a layer of fat salt pork in the bottom of a saucepan; then, some sliced onion and parsley.
Stew in hot water, with a slice of fat salt pork, cut very small, half a minced onion and a little chopped parsley, until the pork is dissolved and the potatoes very tender.
When they have been in five minutes, take them out and put into the soup-pot with the fried onion and water.
Cut, when cold, into dice; fry a small chopped onion in a heaping spoonful of butter, for one minute, then put in the potatoes.
Add theonion and herbs cut up fine, the spice, salt and pepper, and stew half an hour, closely covered.
Put onion and other vegetables with spice on in two quarts of water, and boil down to three pints.
When the rice is soft and has soaked up the broth, remove the onion and add a raw custard made of the milk, egg, pepper, and salt.
In the morning put them and the onion into a farina-kettle with just enough water to cover them.
Cover with potatoes; season; put in the rest of the chops; cover with onion and potatoes.
Put into the soup-pot with the chopped ham; the onion sliced, the herbs and spice.
On Saturday, draw, wash, and stuff your ducks, adding a touch of onion and sage to the dressing.
Strew a little onion in the bottom of a bake-dish; put in a layer of meat, peppered and salted; scatter bits of floured butter over it; then more onion.
Strain it out, and when your steak is done, and laid upon a hot dish, pour the butter in which the onion was fried over it.
The last must be put in with theonion and before the meat.
They will not be very appetizing, especially if they had to be a frequent meal, yet onion soup is made from the same materials, and in France is a very favorite dish, even with those well able to put meat in it if they wished.
I am desired to eat a raw onion every day during the Khamseen for health and prosperity.
On his death-bed he sent for the other, confessed what he had done, and ordered that the shrivelled onion should be given him, possibly with the idea of undoing the spell, which had rebounded on himself.
One wonders a little what he meant, for garlic is not a Scilla, and it hardly seems likely he was referring to what Parkinson calls Scilla alba, or the Great Sea Onion of the Mediterranean.
Dump the meat into this chopping bowl," Tom continued, as he hastily dropped peeled onion after onion into the wooden bowl.
Variations: a) An onion sauteed in fat may be added to the cheese mixture.
Chop onion and garlic and fry to a light golden colour in butter.
Brown the liver and sliced onion quickly in hot fat.
The thread-shaped leaf of the Onion fulfils the same office, and the nourishing matter it prepares is deposited in its sheathing base, forming one of the concentric layers of the onion.
Section of an Onion seed showing the slender and coiled embryo in the albumen, moderately magnified.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: condiment; pepper; salt; spice; vegetable
