Tag: Onion
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Pickling Onions and Calcium Chloride
Calcium chloride is used extensively in the food industry and is considered a very safe additive by all the food safety bodies. When it comes to pickles it has two primary functions, it gives a salty taste and (more importantly) keeps the pickles crisp. Without calcium chloride your pickles will go soft fairly quickly in…
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Onion Greens and Crystallised Ginger Sauce
I was processing the pickling onions I grew this year and started to wonder what I could do with the onion greens (e.g. the leaves). All parts of the onion are edible, even the roots apparently, so it seems a shame to waste them. I found a recipe that was essentially ginger and onion with…