Haywards Medium & Tangy Silverskin Pickled Onions - 400g

Pickled onions are part of the furniture in British food. They sit on the pub ploughman's, in the jar on the chip shop counter, and on the edge of every cold plate worth eating. Silverskins are the small ones, the size a cocktail stick was made for.

Plenty of people can find a pickled onion. What they are after is this one: the Haywards label they remember from the cupboard at home, the same size, the same snap when you bite down. Small things like that are what make a kitchen feel familiar.

The 400g jar keeps in the cupboard until you open it; after that, keep the lid on tight and follow the jar. Eat them whole, chop them into a cheese sandwich, or line a few up on a board with ham and crackers and call it dinner.

Haywards is best known in Britain for pickled onions and mixed pickles, and it has been at it a very long time. People tend to buy a jar alongside a good mature cheddar and a crusty loaf, and suddenly the fridge has a ploughman's in it.