How to preserve onions

Those who know me well know that I like buying in bulk. (Sense will not kee me)

But oftentimes, the preservation of perishables is a dilemma for folks like myself. 

Three month ago I went to the market with my friend’s house keeper, Mummu Winnie. She’s a real Market woman. 

We bought the biggest basket of tomatoes for 4,500 Naira! 

I needed to buy onions but decided against it because of the problem of preservation. 

Hear Mummy Winnie “Onions are the easiest things to preserve if you buy the right type and if you sprinkle ‘Lafun’ all over it”

I was like “la what?”

Lafun by the way is cassava flour. 

So she picked the onions to buy and got me a bowl (Mudu) of Lafun. 

I got home and followed her instructing to spread the bulbs on a sack in a relatively airy apace and to sprinkle the cassava flour over them. 

It’s been three months. 

None of the onion bulbs has changed colour or gone bad despite the biting heat in Abuja. I bought half a bag and they are still as fresh as if I just bought them. 

I don’t know how this works but it did work. 

I’m sharing this just incase someone finds it useful. 

It’s amazing what simple hacks our progenitors employed in their lifetime. Life was indeed less complicated back then I’m sure. 

If you know other tips like the one I just shared and you don’t mind sharing knowledge, kindly drop in the comment box.