Pickling query.

schrodie

Got the shock of my like the other day when I ened up spending ~£70 in Aldi (and I thought they were supposed to cheap!) so as I can't sustain £70 every week so as a start I've decided to save some money and bake my own bread and pickle my own onions and red/white cabbage as they cost a lot ready made. However I've found that the ready made pickling vinegar does somewhat take the top of your head off. Is there a way to soften the blow as it were of the pickling vinegar?

Thanks

Butterfly_Brain

This should help
http://www.self-sufficient.co.uk/Making-Pickled-Onions.htm

scaredy_cat

add some sugar to it to lessen the acidity. i prefer sweet pickled onions so i add alot.

http://www.pickleandpreserve.co.uk/index.php/blog/sweet-pickled-onions.html

http://britishfood.about.com/od/recipeindex/r/pickonions.htm