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I like pickled eggs, my father used to make them, his mother did........... They, and I, always pickle them with some cooked beetroot which gives a really good flavor, turns the egg a shocking purple, and also gives you pickled beet. The best addition to a salad - a quartered pickled egg and a slice of the beet. Within 4 days the purple is just getting to the yolk, in a week it is purple too - beautiful.
I do not like them nearly as much after a week, the flavor is best from the second day to the eighth.
Two problems - I have chickens so my eggs are fresh, and fresh eggs will not peel and I forgot to put a dozen aside for 10 days. I once borrowed an egg steamer and they peeled beautifully - anyone try that? (grow the beets too)
The other thing is I never remember to write down a recipe so have to come up with one anew each batch. Here is a batch with the pickling liquid just poured on, you use the water from boiling the beets.
And then later after the purple has gone through. I keep them in the refrigerator but I do not know if that is needed - on the kitchen window sill
I will try to get a recipe together - I just read a couple on-line and make the amounts up. Anyone do these? Really good. Basically beet water, white vinegar, bit of pickling spices, and some sugar all boiled and poured hot over the eggs.
I do not like them nearly as much after a week, the flavor is best from the second day to the eighth.
Two problems - I have chickens so my eggs are fresh, and fresh eggs will not peel and I forgot to put a dozen aside for 10 days. I once borrowed an egg steamer and they peeled beautifully - anyone try that? (grow the beets too)
The other thing is I never remember to write down a recipe so have to come up with one anew each batch. Here is a batch with the pickling liquid just poured on, you use the water from boiling the beets.
And then later after the purple has gone through. I keep them in the refrigerator but I do not know if that is needed - on the kitchen window sill
I will try to get a recipe together - I just read a couple on-line and make the amounts up. Anyone do these? Really good. Basically beet water, white vinegar, bit of pickling spices, and some sugar all boiled and poured hot over the eggs.
To anyone entering one ........ keep eating the eggs, as soon as you pause for a drink you've lost 
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