Keeping onions fresh.
There is nothing like the taste of sweet spring onions in early June and clear into September. I am a big fan of sweet onions. I love them in summer salads, onion rings and my favorite, a big slice on a grilled hamburger. Yum!
Typically these sweet onions, with their high water and sugar content, don’t keep well but I have found a method that I have been using for years that keep my onions fresh all summer long.
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Sweet onions tend to be more fragile and should be store in the refrigerator. or a cool dark place, but since I live in South Carolina with no cool basement, I had to find an alternative.
After I pull the onions from my garden, I let them dry for a couple days on the table in the barn.
After I brushed off the surface dirt and cut off the stems, I wrapped each of them individually in newspaper. The newspaper helps absorb the onion smell and any extra moisture.
Then I store them in the bottom vegetable bin of my refrigerator. I am able to keep sweet onions fresh all summer long, and I run out long before they ever go bad.
Great tip! I love this kind of practical information on food storage. I am going to try this! The same would work for apples as well from what I have read… Thanks for sharing at the Art of Home-Making Mondays, I hope you join us again next time 🙂
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I will have to try this with our onions. We don’t eat them often and they usually go bad before we finish them. This will help us to add to our frugal lifestyle.
Thank you so much for this tip. I just harvested my onions and was wondering how can I make them last longer since we don’t use the AC as much this year and it is pretty warm in the house (we live in NC), and we don’t have a basement. This is great, thanks!
I have used this method for years and it works great!