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Leonard Blaisdell > wrote:

> In article >,
> Omelet > wrote:
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> > I'll have to try that. It's like blanching tomatoes for peeling? How
> > long do you time them for?
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> A couple of minutes in boiling water, trim the root end off and squeeze.
> They pop out of the skin and about one layer of the onion like an
> eyeball ;-) It's the only way to go for a quantity of pearl onions and
> you don't weep while you're doing it. You squeeze just below the
> thickest diameter on the top side.
>
> leo

Thanks! I'll have to give that a shot.
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