I have beets! How do I pickle them?

I love pickled beets. Keep a jar in the fridge for putting in salad with goat cheese and other good things.

Now I have a big mess o' raw beets, from a farmstand. Seems to me that, given premise A, the logical thing to do is... pickle them myself.

So how do you do that? I'm pretty sure vinegar is involved. Oh, and beets.

Mike,
I've made them for years and have beets in the frig waiting to be pickled as soon as I pick up more cider vinegar and pickling spices. I like to peel and slice the beets and cook them in a mix of sugar and vinegar. I must tell you I have no recipe but use taste as my guide for sweet and sour. I usually wrap pickling spices in cheesecloth so as they are not on the beets when I take them out of the jar. I then let them cool, place in jars and refrigerate to use. I'll try to measure this afternoon or tomorrow when I make them to give you a more exact recipe.
Paulette

I made pickled beets with some white and red beets from the farmer's market a few weeks ago. I cleaned, dried, rubbed with a bit of oil and roasted them (about an hour I think). Then removed skin and sliced and mixed together with some frenched vidalia.
Brought 1 cup water, 1 cup cider vinegar, 1/2 cup sugar and a heavy dash of salt to boil, then poured over beets.
I just put them all in a large tupperware container. They were good the next day, incredible the next week.
Although after a day or so, they were all the same color of red and I couldn't tell the difference between the two varieties when pickled as you could when roasted.
Jamie

Mike,

For years, I have used the same basic method Paulette does, with the addition of smashed fresh ginger knobs and a fresh jalapeno or two in the liquor.

Jeez, leave it to ER to put jalapenos in his BEETS!

Ronnie, I toured the Rt. 11 Potato Chip Factory a couple weeks ago, and, among their *wonderful* chips, discovered their habenero variety. I'm good with hot stuff, but not THAT good. You'd love 'em--have 'em with your beets.

What a chilehead, our ER!

Geo

http://www.rt11.com/