5 traditional british onions Recipes

pickling onions, peeled, malt vinegar or 1 1/2 pints pickling vinegar, ready-mixed pickling spices (or 2 tbsp of your your own mix using -- green, white and black peppercorns, coriander seeds,)

self-rising flour, grated beef suet or 6 oz vegetable suet, salt, cold water, to mix, braising steak , trimmed of fat, flour, tomato puree, onion, peeled and chopped, dried herbs or 1 tbsp chopped fresh mixed herbs, beef stock, salt, pepper

grated cheddar cheese, grated red leicester cheese, grated mozzarella cheese, mayonnaise, spring onion, finely diced, onion, finely diced, salt & pepper

plain flour, plus extra for rolling, cold unsalted butter, roughly cubed, egg yolk, egg whisked with 1 tbsp milk, for the egg wash, ox kidney , about 400g/14oz, get it fresh from your butcher. pig s and lamb s kidneys aren tsp suitable as they on, trimmed british top rump beef, flat mixed mushrooms , unpeeled but wiped with a damp cloth, peanut oil or 3 tbsp vegetable oil, unsalted butter, onion, peeled and thickly chopped, plain flour , depending on how thick you like your gravy, off-the-boil water, marigold swiss vegetable bouillon granules, bay leaf