The Land of Bibble
A New Chapter
Pickled Onions
Bubble and squeak (sometimes just called bubble) is a traditional English dish made with leftover vegetables from a roast dinner. The chef ingredients are potato and cabbage, but carrots, peas, brussels sprouts, and other vegetables can be added. It is traditionally served with cold meat from the Sunday roast, and pickles.
Method
- Peel the onions and soak them overnight in salt water (1 tblsp of salt per pint of water)
- The next morning, sterilise your mason jars (You can boil them for ten minutes), drain your onions, and fill the jars with the onions to about 1/2 an inch from the top
- Mix as much pickling solution as you think you'll need using the following proportions, for each pint of apple cider vinegar add 1 dessert spoon of the powdered mustard, 5.5 ounces of brown sugar, one dessert spoon of salt (flat, not heaped), and 1 tsp of ground black pepper
- Shake the pickling mixture well until everything that's going to dissolve has dissolved, and then pour it over the onions in the jars (leave 1/4 inch gap at the top)
- Finely dice one habanero or chilli pepper for each jar of onions and add them to the jars (adding the habanero/chilli pepper is optional, but it does give it a great bite). Screw on the lids, shake each jar well, then put them on the back shelf of your refrigerator and leave for around 4 weeks
Ingredients
- Lots of small pickling (pearl) onions
- A handful of habaneros or chilli peppers
- Apple cider vinegar
- Colmans English Mustard (the yellow powder type)
- Hard brown sugar
- Salt and ground black pepper
habaneros
Colmans Mustard
Apple Cider Vinegar