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Sweet Pickled Beets

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Sweet Pickled Beets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil them in a porcelain kettle till quite soft, when cool cut lengthwise or any desired shape ; boil equal parts vinegar and sugar with 1/2 tablespoon of ground cloves tied in a bag, to each gallon ; pour boiling hot over the beets. Mrs. T. W. McNett.

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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