Bye Bye Lipton’s Onion Soup mix, I think I will use French Onion Soup for my roast base from now on….besides who really knows what’s in those dehydrated dust packets?!

I love any kind of soup and this one works somewhat as a multi-purpose soup in my household.  One that I can eat straight out of the jar or one that I can use as a base for cooking.  I hate using one of those “onion soup” packets that has no telling what in it.

This took just a few minutes to throw together and it yielded 10 pints.  Before I started slicing the onions, I placed my sterile jars in the oven on 200 degrees to get them to the desired heat before canning.

• 2 Tablespoons of butter
• 7 or 8 medium onions, sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, minced

Peel and slice the onions.  I cooked mine in a cast iron pan with a little bit of butter, cook them until the onions are tender then mix in the minced garlic.  In a large saucepan, I mixed together the following soup base:

• 12 cups of beef broth (that I made from Better than Bouillon Beef Paste)
• 2 tablespoons of A1 Steak Sauce
• 2 teaspoons of canning salt

Spoon the onions evenly into the 10 hot sterile pint jars.

Then fill the jars with the hot broth mixture leaving 1 inch head space.

Wipe the rims with a sterile cloth.  Place a hot lid and ring on each jar and tighten.  Pressure can on 10 lbs of pressure; pints 60 minutes and quart for 75 minutes.

Enjoy!