[Sca-cooks] Period or no?

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Lisa wrote:

> The way I remember assisting my mother in making pickled beets (actually
> very sweet) was boiling them and slipping the skins off of the beets, once
> the cool enough to handle, you cut them up either into slices or quarters,
> place them in glass jars and pour what she called a "standard" pickling
> combination over them... this combination consisted of apple cider vinegar
> and pickling spices and heated to a boil.
>
> Lady Elizabeta of Rundel
>
Exactly the same way my mother made them, except with a very strongly
worded note on the recipe to use distilled or otherwise purified water,
because tap water gave them an odd taste.

Hmmm.

Mom's recipe is cider vinegar, sugar, distilled water, cooked beets (and
the canned baby beets work just as well for this, I've found), and I think
that might be it. I'll have to see if I can find it, since I know I have
it written down somewhere.

They end up sweet/sour, but not with the standard pickling "bouquet" that
you get with the packaged pickling spices.

Margaret FitzWilliam