An Ornamental Pickle

Original Recipe

Boil fresh eggs half an hour, then put them in cold water. Boil red beets until tender, peel and cut in dice form, and cover with vinegar, spiced; shell the eggs and drop into the pickle jar.

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Boil fresh eggs half an hour, then put them in cold water.

  2. 2

    Boil red beets until tender, peel and cut in dice form, and cover with vinegar, spiced; shell the eggs and drop into the pickle jar.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)