Onion and cheese quiche

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Flour
¼ pounds Butter or margarine
½ cup Club soda or schweppes
Salt
3 larges Onions; very thinly sliced
2 tablespoons Butter or margarine
½ pounds Grated yellow cheese; (gruyere )
1 tablespoon Flour
4 Eggs
cup Heavy cream
½ cup Milk
Salt; pepper, and nutmeg

Directions

CRUST

FILLING

RFCJ Reposts (from rec.food.cooking.jewish >From: "Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky" <miriamp@...> NOTE 1: All ingredients should be very cold.

DOUGH: Cut butter into flour and salt until it resembles very coarse meal.

Stir in soda. Knead just to combine. Wrap in film and refrigerate 1 hour.

On a floured board roll out dough, fold in 3's, as if you were folding a letter. Chill 1 hour.

FILLING: Cook onions in butter until translucent. Let cool. Stir flour into cheese. Blend eggs, cream, milk and seasonings.

Roll out dough and place in a quiche pan. Place parchment paper or foil and weights or beans on top.Bake 15 minutes. Remove weight and paper. Spread onions in the bottom. Spread cheese mixture and pour cream and eggs on top.

Bake in pre-heated 350 oven for 20 minutes. Turn down heat to 300 and bake another 35 minutes.

Recipe by: Miriam PodcameniPosvolsky Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #316 by Jeff Freedman <jefffree@...> on Dec 03, 1997

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