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Pickled Beets in the Winter

I love canning every year. It is the best tasting food. It requires alot of hard work, but it is well worth it. Every year, I work extra hard to can enough food for our family. There are seven of us so I can alot. One thing that I cannot keep enough of is pickled beets. These beets, if you like pickled beets, taste great and they are healthy too. They won’t just eat beets, without being pickled. So I have to pickle them. My family eats them for a snack or with meals, it doesn’t matter. So that is why, no matter how many jars I can, it is never enough and we end up running out before Summer comes back and I get to make some more. So when I run out, I fix the following recipe using store bought canned beets. In fact, they taste like my home canned beets once I am done. They don’t take as much time to make and I can fool my family. I love canning, otherwise this would be the only way I would fix it. The next time you get a craving for summer foods, open up a can of beets and follow this recipe. It will take about 15 minutes to prepare

You will need:

1 16 ounce can of beets

1/3 Cup vinegar

1/4 Cup sugar

1/4 cup water

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

This is what you do:

In a medium saucepan, combine vinegar, sugar, water, salt, ground cloves,and ground cinnamon. Bring to a boil; stirring occasionally. Drain beets and add to mixture. Bring mixture back up to a boil then reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Let cool then transfer to container and store in the refrigerator for at 8 hours. This will keep in your refrigerator for one month.

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About Jennifer Frye

Jennifer Frye is a stay at home mother with five children, four boys and one girl, including a set of boy/girl twins. She and her husband have been married for 14 years and they raise a small farm in a little town in West Virginia. Her two older boys participate in the local Swine Club and raise their own pigs for projects. She enjoys sharing her experiences as a mother and finds that everyday is a story. Her goals are to raise her children up with respect and dignity and knowledge. She loves cooking for her family and loves sharing her hobby with her children. She incorporates cooking as a family activity and gets everyone involved. Besides cooking, she loves to read and she keeps journals of her daily life with her children for the future. She has been a Sunday School teacher, ran her own day care in her home and during the summer, she teaches children about cooking. She feels that every child should know the basics of cooking.