[Sca-cooks] Ember Day Tart

[Mark Calderwood]

At 11:06 5/03/02 +1100, you wrote:
>It is also a possibility (that we never think of) that they may have done
>so without even peeling the onions first. Would it make a difference?
>Perhaps, perhaps not, but certainly onion skins are used to make clothing
>dyes so potentially the onion skin could colour the rest of the onion in
>cooking.

In British culinary tradition onions are still parboiled whole, but peeled.
Boiling unpeeled onions makes them bitter.

Giles