Recipe(tried): How to scrape an onion...

Chip, I haven't even thought of this for many years, Long ago, we used to scrape or "juice" an onion for certain recipes, where you wanted to get a very fine pulpy juice. One recipe I remember was a dip for potato chips where you scraped the onion and mixed it with softened cream cheese or sour cream. You can "Juice" by cutting the onion in half, horizontally, and squeezing out the juice on a reamer, as you would do for oranges. To scrape, cut it in half, horizontally, and using the side edge of a table spoon, scrape it across the cut surface to get a very fine, juicy pulp. It AIN'T easy or fun!! Today, I would get the same results by grating the cut onion on the very finest holes in my kitchen grater. This is indeed an OLD method...I would love to know what recipe required it...want to share???