We picked a mess of beets yesterday.  Some were as large as a baseball.  We grow the Red Ace variety, which does very well for us and they stay very tender – even when they look like baseballs!
Time to do some canning.
First, cut off the greens.  Leave a couple of inches of stems attached.
Wash them [...]

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It’s almost time to pick beets.  We still have a few quarts left from last year’s harvest, and a favorite summer side dish of ours is pickled beets.
I use home-canned beets, but the canned ones from the grocery store work just as well.
This original recipe is from the 1944 edition of The Good Housekeeping Cookbook.  [...]

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