German Onion Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter I would try using less
• 2 lbs onions finely chopped
• salt
• fresh ground pepper
• 1/2-1 teaspoon caraway seed
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• one 9 in unbaked pastry shell

Steps:

• Melt butter Cook onions very slowly in butter over very low heat stirring frequently Cook until they turn clear yellow about 1 hour
• Add salt pepper and caraway to taste Let cool
• Preheat oven to 400F
• Thoroughly beat eggs and yolks into the sour cream Mix with the cooled onions
• Pour into pie shell Bake 15 minutes; reduce heat to 350 and bake another 35-40 minutes until golden brown
• Mrs G used to add about 1/4 teaspoon baking powder to the pie shell dough She did not use yeast which some German onion pie recipes use
• These are the changes that I made from the original recipe that I found in a book the written recipe calls for 2 whole eggs plus 2 egg yolks; Mrs G used 3 whole eggs
• The written recipe calls for 1 cup butter; I am guessing that it may not need that much