h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My onions are now soaking in teh salt/water for 24 hours took me some time to get round to buying the onions Bit of advice needed; as I'm not (this time at least) doing the boiling vinigar thinggy, just using the sarsons pickling vinigar (perhaps with a bit of the white wine vinigar I have), I was thinking... Can I drop a few cloves and peppercorns and a bay leave into the jar that the onions are being pickled in? or won't that work well, as the added bits will just be near one or two fo the onions?

OOps - missed seeing this!

I can't see why not although I wouldn't think that the effect will be quite the same as boiling them all up.

Let me know how they turned out please.

shazz

First jar came out pretty wlel though I think I should have left it longer before opening it and starting on them the second jar is now in the process of 'maturing' though this time I am going to leave it at least a month from when they entered the jar/vinigar until I open them The first batch of onions were a bit too big and so that mighten have not helped them, but they came out pretty damn well I think the second lot are really really relaly tiny 'pickling onions', organic ones I got from over the road same way, soaked 24 hours in the salt/water, then into the jar, adding some cloes pepper corns and a few bay leaves, so far I've only used ordinary pickling vinigar, and not tried doing combinations with cider or other vinigar I should get round to doing another jar this week or the beginning of next once I@ve some more vinigar then I'll do some more later in the month, and try to get some of these that I'll then keep all the time till Christmas by which time I recon they'l really blow your head off when eaten

Sounds good to me! I'll have a rival for the Pickling Champion of h2g2 if I'm not careful!

shazz

This is only the very tentative steps on the beginning of a long dusty road to attempt to gain the title of pickling king after onions will come eggs, and after eggs will come red cabbage, and after red cabbage will come gerkins though I want to get the onions totally right first; depending on how this second bunch comes out I may move over to the method involving boiling the vinigar with the 'flavouring stuff' in it first then of course I'll need to begin experimenting on various differnt mixes of vinigars, at the moment I relaly want to try doing some sweet onions in some sweet vinigar, not sure which would be best hough this may take me several years before I get to the egg let alone red cabbage stage

'flavouring stuff'. Is this in any way connected to a certain researcher's flatmate's omelettes?

(sorry, I've had a few drinkies tonight)

no! : cloves, bay leaves, cinimon sticks, chillies, pepper corns etc., etc., etc., fancy a pickled onion?

I wouldn't have 'em any other way.

And CUP genuinely does want some of your onions.

Make of that what you will!

Don't forget the secret ingredient - root ginger!

For the best sweet variety try using some raspberry vinegar. Absolutely delicious.

shazz

Iiii ooo aaaaa if I ever make enough jars I hope to starting shring em about a bit... well... a bit more than I share it about anhow

You'd better! Or CUP will be cooking more sausages for ya'.

CUPs Sausages were fine though

Fair enough, there is *one* sausage that CUP never leaves, ahem, underdone.

right... I'm tired and almost falling asleep here... I feels me must go to bed now

Ach, ya bogger, leaving me on HoooToo with Skanyrich & lil? You shameless individual...

2legs and GHERKINS????

Oh ye gods, i am feeling faint at the thought.

(Faint is quite happy though, she enjoys a squeeze every now & then.)

Ask Shazz to tell you how we met one day. Pickled onions can result in all sorts of life changing experiences; be afraid, be very very afraid....

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