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Pickled Beets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pickled Beets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the beets carefully to avoid breaking the roots.

  2. Boil the beets in plenty of water for about 3 hours.

  3. Remove the beets without piercing them with a fork.

  4. Allow the beets to cool, then cut them into pieces.

  5. Pour good vinegar over the cut beets.

  6. Exclude air to ensure they keep well for several months.

  7. Occasionally boil the vinegar and pour it hot over the beets for better flavor.

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.

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