Pickled Onions

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (10)
for pickling
optional flavoring
Instructions (12)
  1. Peel the smallest onions available.
  2. Place onions in salt and water for nine days, changing the water daily.
  3. Put the onions into jars.
  4. Pour fresh boiling salt and water over them.
  5. Let them stand closely covered until cold.
  6. Make more salt and water and pour it boiling hot upon them.
  7. When cold, put onions into a hair sieve to drain.
  8. Put onions into wide-mouthed bottles.
  9. Fill bottles with distilled vinegar.
  10. Add one or two slices of ginger, one blade of mace, and a large teaspoon of eating oil to each bottle.
  11. Cork bottles well.
  12. Optionally, add one or two bay leaves and bay salt to each bottle.
Original Text
PEEL the smallest onions you can get, and put them into salt and water for nine days, and change the water every day, then put them into jars, and pour fresh boiling salt and water over them, let them stand close covered until they are cold; then make some more salt and water, and pour it boiling hot upon them, and when it is cold put your onions into a hair sieve to drain, then put them into wide mouthed bottles, and fill them up with distilled vinegar, and put into every bottle a slice or two of ginger, one blade of mace, and a large tea spoonful of eating oil; it will keep the onions white; then cork them well up.—N. B. If you like the taste of a bay leaf, put one or two into every bottle, and as much bay salt as will lie on a six-pence.
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