2 tb Butter
1 lb Onions, thinly sliced
2    Cloves
2 tb Flour (heaping)
1 pn Powdered mace or nutmeg
1    Bay leaf
1 l  Chicken or pork stock
300 ml Milk
1    Salt and pepper
150 ml Cream
2 tb Grated cheese (optional)

Heat the butter, and when foaming add the onions and cloves. Let the
onions soften, but not color at all. Sprinkle over the flour, mix well
and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute; then add the nutmeg, the bay leaf
and the stock. Stir all the time until it boils, and see that it is
smooth. Simmer until the onions are cooked, then gradually add the milk,
stirring, and when that boils lift out the cloves and bay leaf.
.
It can now be liquidized, or served as is with the cream added, and a
sprinkling of grated cheese.