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Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Stock
  2. Onions
  3. ten gallons of water

Method

  1. 1983.
  2. About a fortnight ago we bought a bankrupt stock of vegetables for pickling, and we find that the onions are rather brown, probably with lying.
  3. Can you give us any way of whitening these?
  4. The outer skins have been removed from a number, but the brown colour persists.
  5. (Glasgow.) They should be put into a solution of one gallon of a 5 per cent, solution of sulphur dioxide to ten gallons of water, allowed to stand for fourteen days, and washed well in clean water until all the sulphur dioxide is removed.

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Credit

From Food Manufacture 1936-03 (1936), printed page 32, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/sim_food-manufacture_1936-03_11_3

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.