Peel the onions and cut them lengthwise.
Brown them in a pan with a neutral-flavored oil until they get a bit of color.
Place them in an ovenproof dish with thyme, salt, pepper, mustard, duck fat, and English sauce, and confit them in the oven at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit) for anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours. They should be tender and translucent.
Slice them and put them in a mason jar along with the duck fat mixture. This is done to make it faster to create soft onions, as it takes a long time to make from scratch. The onions can stay refrigerated for a long time, so you can easily make soft onions another day.
When finishing them, it's important to get both the onions and the fat into the pan (if you're not using the whole jar), as the fat is what they will be fried in. Put it in a hot pan and fry them for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly. Add a bit of English sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. Turn down the heat and let them simmer for a couple of minutes.
Put the onions in a bowl and add some pork cracklings, stirring it all together.