pickled beetroot

[prison break fan]

Will do!! pbf.

[Millymollymandy]

Back to pickling beetroot, as I've decided to do some - from looking through recipe books and on the internet it seems that if you use hot pickled vinegar it will keep for much longer than pouring cold vinegar over the beets.

The problem is this - what kind of vinegar to use? I have seen pretty similar recipes only with red wine, white wine or malt vinegars!

I do have a 2 litre container of malt vinegar which I bought in England about 18 months ago which probably needs using up, so might have to go with that.

[oldjerry]

I dont like bought pickling\malt vinegar,to my jaded pallette it makes everthing taste the same (though it preserves the longest).I like to do the beet(Great roasted as already said earlier in thread) in half white wine vinegar half water,sugar to taste,heated to dissolve sugar with chilli, garlic whatever you fancy,strained and poured hot over the beet skinned sliced and layered with onion,tiny beet done whole.I've no idea how long it keeps,longest was a month before I found one I'd forgotten about at the back of the pantry.I'd rather clamp up the raw beets,and do the preserving periodically through winter.

Wine vinegar isnt that expensive just let a bottle of w. wine go off then dilute to taste.

[Millymollymandy]

I've never tried pickled eggs (I don't think) but I don't like the idea any more than curried eggs.

I think I'll use the malt and I am going to spice it. Can't get it here so that's why I bought a huge vat of it but not opened it yet - still using up some old(er) malt on me chips! I can stock up next year when I go to England.

I am running out of freezer space, cupboard space, jam jars you name it. I think this year is a good 'un! Even the chooks are enjoying eating cucumber, split tomatoes, last year's frozen sweetcorn cut off the cob which we never got round to eating but must make room in freezer for this year's things, bits of plum with grubs in...... Head's spinning with so much harvesting/pickling/jamming, I see from facebook and here that I am not the only one though!

And a friend popped round yesterday, walked into my kitchen and said 'oh no not you too' at all the bowls of tomatoes, plums and stuff taking up half the table space.

Sorry, waffling.

[Millymollymandy]

oldjerry your reply came up whilst I was waffling, I would want the beets to keep a lot longer than a month cos in a month I could still be preparing fresh beetroot so wouldn't want to be eating the pickled stuff! I have to do some soon though as they are getting a bit big but still plenty of smaller ones coming on.

[oldjerry]

You'd want 'the pickled stuff' if you used the sweet pickle recipe! best thing for beet ('cept rissotto of course). BW.