"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:09:32 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>>> what the "creamer" refers to, I do not know.
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>> It's probably a reference to "creamed"... but I can't say anymore
>> about it because my mother didn't do/like those things. Her mother
>> would make "creamed" onions every now and then and that's all I know
>> about "creamed" anything. I thought they were pretty good tasting,
>> but I knew better than to ask my mother to make them.
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> But were they creamed in the sense you cream butter and sugar or did they
> have cream as a sauce?

Creamed onions are in a cream sauce.