Golden Crunchy Pickled Onions
"From yahoo group. Description states: "You should allow two weeks after preparing these before eating. They’ll be tasty right away, but they’ll be sublime if you exercise two weeks’ worth of patience!""
photo by Feisty
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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12 pints
ingredients
- 6 lbs small to medium mild onions
- 72 whole cloves
- 72 whole black peppercorns
- 12 teaspoons mustard, seed
- 6 teaspoons celery seeds
- 8 cups cider vinegar
- 2 cups water
- 4 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 6 teaspoons ground turmeric
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
directions
- To each prepared pint jar add 6 cloves, 6 peppercorns, 1 tsp mustard seed and 1/2 tsp celery seed. Set aside.
- Peel and slice the onions into 1/4″ thick rings. Separate the onion rings carefully and divide among the jars.
- In a large nonreactive saucepan, stir together the vinegar, water, sugar, salt, turmeric and cinnamon over high heat. Heat the syrup to boiling and then allow it to simmer for 2 minutes.
- Pour the hot liquid over the onion rings being sure to leave 1/4″ of headspace. Use a chopstick or skewer to remove air pockets that might be in the jars by running it along the inside wall of the jar. If needed, add more hot syrup to maintain the 1/4″ headspace.
- Process jars in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Adjust time according to your altitude.
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If you haven't made these yet...what are you waiting for? These are outstanding! We love them on sandwiches, or sprinkled over a salad. Really great in a panini, too, since they keep their crunch and it adds some additional texture to your sandwich. They are a little sweet, a little sour, a little spicy from the cinnamon and tumeric, with the great onion flavor remaining at the base. They are beautiful in the jar, and make great gifts. I buy a box of onions at our local produce stand every year to make these, as people often request them. One of my favorite condiment recipes.
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<p>My rating system: (I don't like giving bad reviews, so if I don't like it, I'll just not review it.) <br /><br />5 Stars OMG, this is one of the most amazing things I've ever eaten! I can't stop eating it, and I've eaten myself into a food coma. <br /><br />4 Stars The recipe is wonderful as is. I can't think of a single improvement and I will most likely make it again. <br /><br />3 Stars This needed a little *something*something*. I might make it again, but will add my own improvements if I do. <br /><br />I love to eat! And I love to cook. I tend to take over the kitchen when I get in there. Even the dog knows the command get outta my kitchen! LOL. Cooking for other people and trying new recipes or foods is FUN! I have a small (but growing quickly!!) cookbook collection and one of my favorite things to do is to read recipes and plan meals. Rachael Ray, Horn of the Moon and Moosewood are favorites of mine. <br /><br />We spend a lot of time outdoors camping, hiking and backpacking. Yup. I cook in the woods too! I've made deals with my hiking buddies... If they carry in my food, I'll cook for them. I recently published a backpacking cookbook. Check out the website: http://www.onepanwonders.com <br /><br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/projects/200_PACpic.jpg border=0 alt=Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket /> <img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/projects/pacbanner.jpg border=0 alt=Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket /> <br /><br /><br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/untitled.jpg border=0 alt=Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting /> <img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/200_artistrichardneuman-art-prints_.jpg border=0 alt=Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting /> <br /><br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/beartag_1_1.jpg border=0 alt=Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting /> <img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/adopted_1_1.jpg border=0 alt=Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting /> <br /><img src=http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/World%20Tour/AnimatedPRD.gif alt= /> <img src=http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/World%20Tour/ZWT2.gif alt= /></p>
