onion skin

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But imperial Russia’s conquest of the region in the 19th century introduced methods of mass production, and artificial dyes supplanted those made with pomegranate husks, onion skin and acacia flowers.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

I save a lot of stuff; every bone from a chicken or cow or whatever gets saved in the freezer, also with every end of a carrot or onion skin, it all goes into broth.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2019

"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2019

No more feeding sheets of paper backed by carbon paper with attached onion skin for copies.

From Salon • May 4, 2019

Despite Mrs. Kluck’s complaining, all that’s there is a bit of onion skin and a few gum wrappers.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan