Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Wash the dirt off the beets.
  2. In a covered pan cook whole beets in boiling salted water until tender (35-50 minutes).
  3. Cool slightly, cut off remaining greens and slip off skins.
  4. Save 1/2 cup of the beet juice (water beets were cooked in).
  5. Cut up beets the way you want them.
  6. Put in a clean, empty jar.
  7. In a small pan bring the beet juice and the remaining ingredients to a boil.
  8. Pour the hot liquid mixture over the beets.
  9. Let come to room temperature and then chill.