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Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - Old Bay - 06-08-2013
I love Claussen and Boar's Head Kosher dills. As I eat the pickles I slice sweet onions like 10/15's thinly and pack them in the brine. In a few days they are really tastey. I put them on sandwiches, in all sorts of salads, and just eat them with sausage. Handy and cheap little condiment.
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - cjs - 06-08-2013
Great idea,Bill!!
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - DFen911 - 06-08-2013
That is a great idea!! I am so doing that
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - Cubangirl - 06-09-2013
That sounds like a great idea. Is there a big change in the taste of the brine after adding the sweet onion? The reason I ask is that my favorite potato salad recipes use the pickle juice as well as the pickles (no relish). I have a sweet onion now and will use part of it in the salad and would love to add the rest to the pickle juice, but not if it will prevent me from adding it to future salads.
In the summer we usually have a bowl of either potato or macaroni salad in the fridge. Just finished the macaroni, ready to make the potato one tomorrow I hope.
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - cjs - 06-09-2013
Darn, just finished a jar of B&Bs. Will have to hurry with the next one and save for onions and/or add to jar when I get a few out.
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - Old Bay - 06-09-2013
I have never noticed a change in the brine or the flavor of the pickle. I add the onions while I finish off the jar of pickles over several days. I like your idea of adding the juice to potato salad. How about slaw? Why not the pickled onions and some brine to either slaw or potato salad?
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - cjs - 06-09-2013
I add sweet pickle brine to my potato salad also while the potatoes are hot - add some of the pickle to the salad, too.
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - labradors - 06-09-2013
There are only two things I don't like about dill pickles: dill and cucumbers.
Well, I guess that doesn't really leave much. LOL!
The pickle mixture that I do like is the local encurtido: onions, carrots, and jalapeños (optional: cauliflower, bell peppers, radishes or beets [I don't care for it with the beets]) pickled in white vinegar, salt, sugar, bay leaves, garlic, black peppercorns and cumin (optional: olive oil).
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - Old Bay - 06-09-2013
What a wasted life.
Re: Sweet Onion Quick Pickle - Cubangirl - 06-10-2013
I am posting my Reduced Calorie Potato Salad Recipe in the Salads thread. We love it and don't miss the extra calories. It is an adapted version from the original CC recipe which I tested. The technique is quite unique.