[mumofstig]

Classic Bouef Bourguignon and Coq au Vin both have onions about an inch across cooked whole in them.  If you cannot get onions this size you need to strip the outer scales off larger ones.

Gillie

Surely this recipe calls for shallots then? 

[DD.]

That's what we use.

[gillie]

Classic Bouef Bourguignon and Coq au Vin both have onions about an inch across cooked whole in them.  If you cannot get onions this size you need to strip the outer scales off larger ones.

Gillie

Surely this recipe calls for shallots then? 

Not according to Elizabeth David and other acclaimed cookery writers.

Anyway, if I saw DD's centurions on a market stall I would pass by and look for something more suitable.

Gillie

[DD.]

My Centurions wouldn't be on a market stall.

They're all mine!