Today I baked a 'pain de campagne' and I decided to make a soup to go with that; a riff on the traditional French onion soup.

Bread ingredients:
400gr strong bread flour
100gr rye flour
10gr salt
20gr fresh yeast
50gr butter*
Chopped leaves of a large bunch of fresh oregano (though I used sage, from the freezer)

*A #PaulHollywood recipe; he uses a lot of butter in his breads. This is a nice bread but I prefer the #RichardBertinet version.

#PainDeCampagne
#OnionSoup
#HomeBakedBread

Some days, when I'm feeling ambitious, I will make both the stock/broth and the bread for the top. Not today.

I made 3L of veg BTB (Better Than Bouillon; for those who have yet to discover this most excellent cheat code, go get some, trust me), put in all but about 500ml of the onions and juice into it, et voila.

About 5L of the second best onion soup you'll ever make. (The best will be if you make the broth from scratch, but the difference is so slight, the effort isn't always worth it.)

#cookstadon #cookstodon #onionsoup #homemade

This is after 6 hours at 230°F
I stirred them around and stuck them back in for about another 2 hours.

You can't see, but they're producing a fair amount of liquid: about ⅓ of the pot.

I mentioned that they have the lid on, right? I'm trying to get it to the point where I know what temperature works to leave them overnight as I sleep for 8 hours, and 230°F may well be it (at least in this oven).

#cookstadon #cookstodon #onionsoup

Hot onion soup from a vending machine in Japan. Winter doesn't stand a chance.

#japan
#winter
#onionsoup

Final product after three hours. #onionsoup

Before and after. #onionsoup

Fresh croutons! #onionsoup