Comments on: Pickled Red Beet Eggs: Beautiful and Delicious

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:24:35 +0000

I’ve made these all my life, having been a Lancaster/Chester Counties girl, but have never made them with fresh beets, always canned. Now that I belong to a CSA and get fresh ones, I was happy to see this recipe. Also, now that I live in the South, it is fun to serve these and watch peoples’ faces, as they see them for the first time.

By: jay pflanz

jay pflanz — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:26:59 +0000

I’m a Lancaster county boy that just started making red beet eggs in the past year. I work for a produce company and have all those goodies at my fingertips !! Can I substute gold beets for red beets?

By: Jaime

Jaime — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:15:06 +0000

Hi Maria, thanks for the recipe. Im going to try this and add thin sliced red onion and two garlic cloves to the mix and I might stir in ground cinnamon instead of the cinnamon stick. Making two dozen in a big ol’ ice tea jar First time I think I will have had them with cinnamon and cloves but its for Christmas so here gos!

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:00:03 +0000

Being very Mennonite, I grew on on these things and my 83-yr old mother still indulges me by making them just to please me. She uses an old Amish recipe (crossed with what her Mother made in Holmes County, Ohio) that was calculated to feed a barn raising and cuts it down to family-size.

By: Diane Carol

Diane Carol — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:48:30 +0000

Try pickled beet DEVILED eggs….they are a tradition at my house!

By: debby

debby — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:34:10 +0000

Thank you so much for offering the recipe using real beets instead of canned. When I was searching for the recipe it was so disheartening to see so many recipes using canned beets. Also, your addition of cinnamon and cloves sounds very interesting. I can’t wait to try this.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:26:12 +0000

My father-in-law, who BTW is 89 years old, still grows his own red beets (lots of them), spends at least a week making pickled beets (lots of work for an old man), and has enough jars to last him and his family through the year and donate to his church. So, for me, all I need to do is wait till the jar is half empty, put some hard boiled eggs in, and enjoy red beet eggs….

By: shirley

shirley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:32:30 +0000

Love beets plain or pickled & they are so easy to grow here in western
washington. I plan to try your recipe, sounds great. Love your email site.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:00 +0000

I grew up in this area, and in my 20s moved to Boston, after 14 years, I relocated back to the lehigh valley area, and remember that wonderful day that I walked into my work place cafeteria and saw red beet eggs on the salad bar, those beautiful pink eggs……and thought aaaaahhhh, there’s no place like home!!!!!

I might attempt a homemade batch.

By: Kristyne

Kristyne — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:13:40 +0000

My grandmother always made pickled beet eggs when we were kids, though I know she used canned beets. I haven’t thought of these in 20 years, but with your recipe and my summer garden these will be making a comeback on my table!! Thank you, your site is so much FUN.