These pearl onions are slow cooked in ale and mixed with crispy fried homemade salt pork for the perfect side dish in our Dwarven Feast, based on the Dwarves of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. For the complete recipes for the Dwarven food and more Tolkien-inspired recipes, get a copy of our cookbook Feasts of Middle Earth now available on our website.