On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:48:06 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>DW picked the last of the beets today. I am getting ready to slow roast
>them, then peel and slice, and then pickle them. Plan to use one of the
>Ball Book recipes. Any advice from this group, it's been years since I
>pickled beets? No advice from Barb please, I know she hates b**ts. <VBG>
>
>Also the fig crop is starting to come in. Since we put bird netting over
>the tree we are likely to get a lot of figs. Have fig preserves and fig
>jam in mind at the moment.
>
>Getting ready to fire up the gas grill and roast some Anaheim chiles to
>use for chiles relleno this evening.
>
>Put my large roasting pan in the oven yesterday and cooked two large
>pork butt roasts for about 4 hours at 350F. then pulled the meat with
>two forks ala Barb's method. Meat is in three large vacuum bags in the
>freezer. Our daughter is renting a beach cabin at Crystal Beach, TX for
>a week and we and our multitudinous descendants will descent upon them.
>We're taking the pork with BBQ sauce for sammiches, a large spiral cut
>honey cured ham, 6 lbs of hamburger meat and some chickens for grilling
>or smoking. Seems the cabin comes with a grill and a smoker. First
>vacation for us in about fourteen years so we're looking forward to it.
>Of course we will take a case or two of home canned green beans,
>blackeyed peas, jellies, jams, pear sauce, etc with us too. Thinking
>about having some tee shirts made for us and the descendants. Trying to
>come up with a catchy logo for them.
>
>George


Here are the ingredients from the recipe that Edrena posted last year
for pickled beets with red wine. I am not including the instructions
since they are pretty straight forward.

6 pounds beets, with rootlets and 2 inches of tops
1 teaspoon whole cloves
2 4 inch cinnamon sticks, broken
One 1-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced thin
3 cups sugar
2 cups red wine
3 cups red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon salt

Simmer the syrup for 10 minutes.
Leave 1/2 inch head space
Process 30 minutes in BWB

Makes about 7 pints.


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