http://www.democraticunderground.com/115713589Oh my.
The first page of "General Discusson" on Skins's island is moving at the pace of a rocket, lots of primitive comments, and so I decided to seek the quieter, mellower, climes of the cooking and baking forum.
grasswire (34,780 posts)
Here I go......
....prepping for canning without the use of my slicer/chopper this year. Four pounds of onions and 15 pounds of c***s are waiting for me to turn them into bread and butter pickles today. Oy. I'll be cryin' soon. I used to have some onion goggles but they are long gone.
Lucinda (15,278 posts)
1. Ack! Thats a lot of work!
Just keep thinking about all the y***y stuff that will result!
yellerpup (9,497 posts)
2. I know you'll get through it and have plenty of beautiful food at the end, but my hands are already aching for you. Take care of your beautiful eyes and post pix if you can!
grasswire (34,780 posts)
3. I kept my mouth shut the whole time I was prepping the onions...
....and didn't feel much pain.
Lotta pickles.
There's such a connection to the past in putting food up. Of course I remember my mother doing it in the late summer evenings. On the day she made strawberry jam she would also make bread. What could be more delicious than the drippings from the jam on an end crust of hot fresh bread?
And my Aunt Dorothy put up the bounty of a huge garden every year. She was a happy and accomplished homemaker with two pantries and a big jelly cabinet in the basement. Full of dill pickles and everything else.
Life goes on.
kas125 (1,876 posts)
5. On that PBS show where they test recipes and stuff they once did a show about onions and which methods people use to stop the crying. They determined that the best way to avoid onion eyes is to put a lit candle next to the cutting board. I've tried it and it really works.
yellerpup (9,497 posts)
6. Glad you felt no pain during the pickling.
And so happy that you have so much to show for your efforts. Your Aunt Dorothy sounds like a honey! I do the same thing on jelly-making days, now made extra easy by the no-knead bread recipe first brought to my attention on DU. Enjoy those pickles!
Lugnut (7,953 posts)
4. Bless your heart.
I used to do all the slicing for my mother's bread and butter pickles when I was a kid. I used her Feemster slicer that worked like a charm. One summer I sliced the corner off my fingernail. Not pretty...trust me. Those pickles were well worth it.
fizzgig (16,055 posts)
7. try chewing gum next time you have to cut onions
i was skeptical when my husband suggested it, but it worked.
cbayer (110,611 posts)
8. Good for you!
I should look into this, as we could store in the bilge and it would cut down on my issues with having vegetables and fruits.
^^the Bayer aspirin primitive lives in a yacht off the coast of southern California, in case one doesn't get the reference; one imagines Vlada Mitty's jealous.
