Pickled Onions

Instructions

1. Take the smallest onions that can be procured, just after they are harvested - they are never in so good a state for the purpose as then.
2. Peel them, then proceed exactly as for the pickled eschalots above.
3. When they begin to look clear, which will be in three or four minutes, put them into jars and pour the pickle on them.
4. The vinegar should be very pale, and their colour will then be exceedingly well preserved. Any favourite spices can be added to it.
5. Acton's footnote: the Reading onion is the proper kind for pickling.