Onion Pickle

Ingredients

• one quart of salt
• one peck of small white onions
• one ounce of white mustard-seed
• one-half ounce of celery-seed
• one ounce of cinnamon bark
• one-half ounce of mace
• sugar to taste
• good cider vinegar enough to cover them well

Method

1. 1

   Sprinkle salt over onions, pour boiling water, let stand for 3-4 days, then skin and pack in jars with peppers.

2. 2

   Boil vinegar with spices, pour over onions, and tie up while hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ONION PICKLE. Sprinkle one quart of salt over one peck of small white onions; pour over them boiling water, and let them stand three or four days; then skin, wash, and pack them in jars, putting two small red peppers in each jar. Boil enough vinegar to cover them with one ounce of white mustard-seed, one-half ounce of celery-seed, one ounce of cinnamon bark, one-half ounce of mace, and sugar to taste. Pour over the onions, and tie up while hot. Mrs. Bierbower. ONION PICKLE. Pour hot salt-water over one-half peck of small white onions, let them stand until cold, then skin them and scald them a few minutes in weak alum-water; put one-half pound of sugar to three pints of vinegar, flavor with spices to taste ; put all in a kettle, and let it come to a boiling. Tie up closely while not. Mrs. Sarah Miller. ONION PICKLE. Take one peck of small white onions, lay them in salt overnight, then scald in sweet milk, and carefully skin them, and boil in good cider vinegar, with pepper and white mus- tard-seed. Mrs. Abner Hord. ONION PICKLE. Pour boiling water over silver-skin onions, then remove the outside skin, and lay in strong salt-water for nine days ; soak in fresh water three days, changing the water each day ; then remove another layer of skin, together with the little ends of the onions. To one gallon jar of onions, take good 94 The Neiv Kentucky Home Cook Bool. cider vinegar enough to cover them well

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