To Pickle Beets
- Wash beets in cold water, take them of as nearly one size as possible; boil them according to the size, from three quarters of an hour to an hour and a half, then put them into a pan of cold water, rub off the skins with your hands, then cut them in halves or quarters, lengthwise, and put them into cold vinegar, with whole pepper and some salt. Beets must not be cut before boiling-only washed clean; old beets, which have been kept in earth, should be laid in soak the night before boiling.