English Pub Style Pickled Onions ~ Harvest Brinery

Pub Style Pickled Onions

These are part of the traditional Ploughman’s Lunch – Although the items can vary, the contents of a ploughmans lunch are always cold, and generally include crusty bread and cheese, plus pickled onions and chutney. The lunch may also contain a selection of cold meats, ham, maybe a slice of pate and a slice of pork pie, and sometimes slices of apple or other seasonal fruit.

Ploughman’s Lunch – While farm labourers usually carried their food with them to eat in the fields, similar food was for a long time served in public houses as a simple, cheap meal. By the 1950s, the traditional combination of bread, cheese, beer and onions was certainly being referred to by forms of the name later used to promote it. In 1950’s it became part of a marketing promotion by the Cheese industry when if there was a pub quite close to where you lived,  all you need say is ‘Ploughboy’s Lunch, Harry, please’. And in a matter of minutes a tray is handed across the counter to you on which is a good square hunk of bread, a lump of butter and a wedge of cheese, and pickled onions, along with your pint of beer.

Brighten up any deli sandwich, burger, or saucy BBQ sandwich.  The sweet acidity is especially good on fish tacos and carnitas. Add chopped pickled red onions to egg salads and potato salads, or use as a topper for deviled eggs.