A great use for silkie eggs ("Pink Pickled Eggs with Beets")

[joebryant]

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Dang! That sounds good. I'm going to add some sliced onion and a pepper to the jar now while Anne's at the store and can't stop me.

BTW, we sometimes just add more eggs to brine when they're gone. They're as good as anytime after a few days in the refrigerator.

EDIT: Had to gamble and call Anne on her cell phone and tell her to buy a jalapeno pepper because we didn't have one. She said the onion/pepper idea ought to be good. Whewww!

 

[MissPrissy]

With enough vinegar there is never cause to throw out brine or pickle juice (unless you had meat in it).

 

[Dar]

i have to try this if i ever get silkie eggs

 

[MissPrissy]

Use regular eggs.

 

[Dar]

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i have 5 silkies that i bought at an auction yesterday so I am going to wait for them

all my regular eggs have buyers...lol

 

[kbarrett]

I'll have to try your recipe...I love garlic!

From PA Dutch Country...here's the local basic recipe.

1 doz hard boiled eggs
1 15 oz. can/ or even better use juice from boiling fresh beets.
1 thinly sliced onion
1/2 cup vinegar
1/3 cup white sugar

Peel eggs & place on bottom of container with onion slices. Heat beets & juice on stove, add sugar and vinegar, stir till sugar is dissolved & pour over eggs. The longer they refrigerate the better they taste though DH usually breaks into them the next morning.

 

[peepsnbunnies]

Oh Yummy!!! I love trying new recipies for pickling eggs. Since I got coturnix quail (they are little egg laying machines!) I usually don't do full size eggs anymore. I just love the pickled quail eggs! I have tried several recipies with beet juice and without. I have even put them in the pickle juice from bread and butter pickles. It was pretty good that way.

A friend of mine told me that if you don't like peeling all those little eggs, you can put your hardboiled quail eggs (still in the shell) in a jar, fill to the top of the eggs with vinegar, let it sit overnight and the shells will be dissolved in the morning and all you have to do is rinse them off and peel the leathery membrane off. I have not tried it yet, but it sounds easier.

Lisa

 

[MissPrissy]

I cooked fresh beets for supper today. My 3 year old loves them.

I have the fresh pot liquor that I used with vinegar and sugar to make my brine. I boiled some eggs and peeled them added the left over beet slices and poured over the boiling brine. Once it cools to room temp I'll put my jar in the fridge.

P.S. I got these half gallon jars brand new through a friend who knew someone with several hundred jars that needed to be sold. I paid $1 each for the jars with the lid!

 

[Scoop]

I finally got to making this recipe. It was good and so pretty in the jar. I didn't poke any holes in the eggs and the pink coloring went just up to the yolk. Very pretty! I am looking forward to eating the beets! Nothing like eating real food, untouched with processing! Yum-yum!

 

[ranchhand]

Pickled pink roosters?