Glad's Pickled Onions Without Tears

Put 3 kg. pickling onions and 1 kg salt into a plastic bowl, cover with water. Turn regularly for 3 days. Peel (no tears!) and scald 3 times with boiling water, draining each time. Boil about 1&1/2 litres of spiced vinegar. Put onions into jars and pour boiling vinegar over. Place a spoon into jars to stop glass cracking.

Allow to cool before sealing. Ready for use in 7 days.

Source: contributed by Lois Sampson in Kelly's Cook Book. A New Collection of Favourite Recipes published by 'The Golden Girls' Port Lincoln Uniting Church 1997 (Adelaide: Queens Court Press, 1997), p.98.

A Scripture Christmas Cake. How to make a Novel Tea Dainty from Biblical Ingredients.

Four cupfuls and a half, I. Kings iv. 22; half a pound, Judges v. 25; two cupfuls, Jeremiah vi. 20; two cupfuls, Nahum iii. 12; two cupfuls, I. Samuel xxx. 12; two cupfuls, Numbers, xvii. 8; two teaspoonfuls, I. Samuel xiv, 25; to taste, II. Chronicles ix. 9; six, Jeremiah xvii. 11; one cupful and a half, Judges iv. 19; two teaspoonfuls, Amos iv. 5; one pinch, Leviticus ii. 13. Directions, Proverbs xxiii. 14. Bake one and a half to two hours. Baking powder can be used instead of yeast. 

Source: Ideal Recipe Book for use of Currants, Raisins, Sultanas and Grapes. Also Recipes for Refreshing Fruit Beverages and Party Drinks. Issued by Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia. Fifth Edition (Adelaide: n.d. [?after 1933]), p.9.

Pickled Vegetables: Figs

Soak as many figs as you can cover with 4.8 litres vinegar for three days, then pour off the vinegar and add to it 1 kg sugar or treacle, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 125 grams salt, 60 grams each of allspice, ground cloves and ground ginger and boil for 1/4 hour. Pour over the figs while boiling and cover jars.

Source: The South Australian Country Women's Association Incorporated Presents Ways with Fruit and Vegetables (1st edn, 1977), p.15.