How to Pickle Onions

This is a recipe for onion pickles!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 4 quarts peeled onions
• 1 cup canning salt
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/4 mustard seed
• 2 1/2 tablespoons horseradish
• 2 quarts white vinegar

1. Cut onions into slices. Sprinkle with salt. Cover with cold water. Let sit 18 hours. Drain and rinse onions completely.

2. Next combine sugar, vinegar, mustard seed, and horseradish into a large saucepan. Let it all simmer for 15 minutes.

3. Take onions and pack them into hot pint jars. Leave a 1/4 inch headspace from the top.

4. Ladle your simmering mixture into the jars on top of the onions. Again leave a 1/4 inch headspace.

5. Place lids on the canning jars. Put the jars into a boiling-water canner. Boil for 10 minutes.

6. Remove from the canner and let sit. You will hear a POP sound when they are complete!

Tips & Warnings

• You can also add hot red peppers to the onions. Just put one hot pepper chopped into each pint jar!
• Always use caution when handling hot liquids!

Resources

• Ball step by step tutorial

[1stSgtPinkerton]

on 8/9/2008 Great! I can finaly do something with all my onions. Thank you for the great advice. 5 Stars!