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Mon, Jan 31, 11 at 18:52
| I am enjoying a dish of pickled beets, eggs and onions. I don't make this too much because dh doesn't eat them. I usually get them at family get togethers. So I had to look up a recipe. I was amazed to not find it in my 13th edition of Fanny Farmer. So I went on line. I was further amazed to see that not all pickled eggs are purple, i.e., they do not involve beets. Sacrilage! They must be purple and vinegery. I like to pickle onions with them. There has been a minor revolt at the independent living facility where my mother is over the pickled eggs. As she ststed it: "They're not pickled, they're just pink. They didn't use vineger! Are pickled beets and eggs a German heritage thing? So how do you like your pickled eggs? |
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- Posted by jazmynsmom Z5 Madison-ish (My Page) on Mon, Jan 31, 11 at 19:00
| The fact that I'm more familiar with eggs pickled in beet brine leads me to believe that it is very much a German heritage thing... Pickled eggs absolutely should be very pink, and very vinegary. |
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| If they 'ain't' in vinegar, then they're not pickled, are they? It's a very common farm dish here, but then again any way one can preserve extra eggs are. LOL. I am just now catching up on the last of the egg mania before the hens went on strike. |
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Mon, Jan 31, 11 at 19:55
| Lol, one year I decided to fix pickled eggs for a family function. I chose a Chinese recipe that was called something like "One hundred year egg" or "Century egg". As I recall there were beets involved and they turned pink. I placed them among my Deviled Eggs on a tray along with some home grown Italian Parsley. I thought the plate looked very nice and colorful, but there was a "minor revolt" in the family, since I had done a change to their favorite dish. Who would have thought that eggs would be a controversial topic. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pickled Eggs
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| I never did traditional pink/red pickled eggs, but when I had guinea hens - tiny eggs - I hard-boiled them and put them into juice saved from dill-pickles and they turned out very nice. Eggs from Bantam chicks work well also. |
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- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 1, 11 at 5:51
| I don't know if this is a German thing. I never had any there and I just looked through a couple of old cookbooks and could not find a recipe either. |
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- Posted by jazmynsmom Z5 Madison-ish (My Page) on Tue, Feb 1, 11 at 13:34
| Come to think of it, it might be a German-by-way-of-Russia thing. |
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| I think it's Pennsylvania Dutch/German thing.... In my house pickled eggs are pink. |
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| With hot peppers or with beets both good. I think eggs are pickled by many cultures in a variety of ways. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Century egg
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