I had about 4 pounds of beets and that made 5 pints of marinated beets. The beets (bulbs only) are boiled in lightly salted water until tender when pierced with an ice pick. Exact time for boiling ...

Mehr Singh is a food and culture reporter based in New York. Her work appears in Bon Appétit, Food52, and other publications. If you’re the kind of person who finishes a jar of pickles and finds ...

Throughout the summer, Extension educators received many calls concerning problems with canning red beets. Many people seem confused about canning plain beets in water versus pickled beets canned in a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You can vary the spices in this recipe if you like: add cloves, cinnamon, peppercorns… I use these pickles in a variety of dishes, but one of my favorites is ...

The summer of 2016 will certainly be remembered as a strange stretch of weather for all of the dedicated farmers growing crops. The recent rain and extreme humidity has trigged our farm asparagus ...

Everyone sort of assumes it is the chicken. Everyone thinks that the process of pickling was invented as a way of preserving food in a time long before refrigeration, and that people who tried it ...

When I was younger, Good Fridays were always set aside for dying eggs at my grandma’s house. Her kitchen would be permeated with the odor of vinegar before 8 a.m. An enormous enamel canning pot would ...

If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what’s wrong with me. God how I despise pickled beets. You know, those slices of bright magenta mush that come from a can…or ...

The first person to soak the humble cucumber in some vinegar couldn't in their wildest dreams have predicted the Picklewich, pickle ice cream or pickle Bloody Marys, but here we are. Pickles aren't ...