How to cook onion soup:

• Melt 1/4 cup butter in saucepan and fry onion in this until golden brown but not burnt.
• Add the flour and sugar and stir over low flame until brown.
• Add the stock and season with salt.
• Stir over low heat until it boils; then leave to simmer slowly for 10 minutes.
• Butter and toast the sliced bread and put into the Soup tureen.
• When toast rises to the top, sprinkle liberally with grated cheese and run under boiler for a few minutes to melt the cheese.
• Alternately, the toasted bread may be floated in individual oven-proof dishes, then sprinkle with grated cheese and run under the broiler.
• Yield: 5 servings.