Pickled Beats
Serves 4

  1 pound      beets
1/2 cup        cider vinegar
1/2 cup        water
  2 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon   pepper
1/3 teaspoon   salt

Trim off beet greens, leaving 2" of the beet tops.  Wash beets.  Place in large 2 quart saucepan, cover with water, bring to boil.  Reduce heat to medium, simmer 20-40 minutes until tender when pierced with a fork (depends on beet size).  Drain, peel, slice.  Bring vinegar, water, and sugar to boil.  Place beets and vinegar in 1 quart serving dish, cover and refrigerate until serving.  Drain beets before serving.

From Cal-Organic Farms, a Division of Grimmway Enterprises, Inc. www.grimmway.com