Slow-Cooker French Onion Soup

Name: Slow-Cooker French Onion Soup
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 pounds, beef bones (see note); 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 6 large, yellow onions (about 4 pounds), quartered and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices; , Salt and pepper; 1 tablespoon, brown sugar; 1 teaspoon, minced fresh thyme; 5 tablespoons, all-purpose flour; 3/4 cup, apple butter; 3/4 cup, dry sherry; 1/4 cup, soy sauce; 2 cups, low-sodium chicken broth; 2 cups, low-sodium beef broth; 1 loaf, French bread, cut into 1/2-inch slices; 2 1/2 cups, shredded Gruyère cheese

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2010, Cook's Country TV

You can't caramelize onions for French onion soup without constant stirring. Or can you?

SERVES6 to 8

TIME10 to 12 hours on high

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Soy sauce, sherry, and thyme added early on helped boost flavor of our Slow-Cooker French Onion Soup recipe, but the addition of beef bones reproduced the rich meatiness of the classic. We microwaved the bones for a few minutes before placi...

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