Pickled Onions
From: Aunt Cecile, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
  • 4 cups [1 L] pickling salt
  • 16 cups [4 L] water
  • Tiny pickling onions, peeled
  • Enough vinegar to fill jars
  • Whole cloves, to taste
  • Cinnamon, to taste
  • Mixed spices, to taste
  • Sterilized jars and covers
  • Mix together 2 cups [500 mL] pickling salt and 8 cups [2 L] water into a large bowl.
  • Add peeled pickling onions to brine; set aside for 2 days.
  • After 2 days, drain then transfer onions into a large clean bowl.
  • Mix together remaining pickling salt and water into a large clean bowl.
  • Add drained pickling onions to this new brine; set aside for 2 more days.
  • After 2 days, drain then rinse onions under cold running water; well drain.
  • Evenly fil sterilized jars with rinsed drained onions.
  • Bring vinegar, along with whole cloves, cinnamon and mixed spices, to a boil.
  • Completely cover onions in jars with seasoned boiling vinegar; seal jars.