When pickled onions attack!

[Snoopy]

Would that be Evans the milk, Evans the post or Evans the pervert?

[Uncle Mort]

Evans the pervert.

As in "thank evans for little girls"

[Snoopy]

That's the fella!

[TG]

Christ. 3 years since I started this thread.

Just bought this years first batch of onions.

My life is ticking away, measured by the onion season and eurovision.

 

[Barman]

Christ. 3 years since I started this thread.

Just bought this years first batch of onions.

My life is ticking away, measured by the onion season, eurovision and Me Mi.

 

 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Christ. 3 years since I started this thread.

Just bought this years first batch of onions.

My life is ticking away, measured by the onion season and eurovision.

 

Excellent news TG, not that your life is ticking away obviously rather that it is the onion season again.  I keep looking longingly at all the wild fruit that is ripe and ready to harvest but have to keep myself in check for a week or so.

Home made pickled onions can't beat them.

[tel]

Mrs Tel just made the first apple sponge of the year. I shall pig out later on.

There are loadsa apples this year.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Mrs Tel just made the first apple sponge of the year. I shall pig out later on.

There are loadsa apples this year.

I know much to my shame I purchases an apple harvesting gadget on Friday.

[Just One More]

You bought a pig? 

[Darwins Selection]

You bought a pig? 

[Pirate]

She wants truffles too...

[Just One More]

Sooooo, TG/Miss C, do you use standard pickling vinegars and spice packs, or do you use recipes handed down through generations like? I use to do my own many moons ago but that was using pickling spice that I use to get off Stockport market when I lived up that way. Any tried and tested recipes will be greaty appreciated

[Snoopy]

The trick is in the salting of the peeled shallots 

[Just One More]

That bit I remember, I use to soak them for 48hr's. It's the additional chillies, mustard seeds etc I'm interested in

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

You bought a pig? 

  Given half the chance I would.

Re: pickling spices etc.... Have always pickled with malt vinegar. Can't be doing with small expensive quantities of spices from supermarkets so purchase from markets and add dried chillies when pickling onions.

I salt long term onions for pickling, to keep them crisp but for those that will be consumed within three months there is no need honest trust me on this one. If you are going to eat them before or at Christmas don't bother with the whole salting thing, just label the jars so that you know which is which.