Recipe: Pickled Beets with Onions

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Pickled Beets with Onions
Yield: 4 pints

8 lbs. beets
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
4 cups cider vinegar
2 whole sticks cinnamon
6 whole allspice
8 whole cloves
2 large onions, sliced thin
1 lemon, sliced thin

Wash beets. Cook till just tender-about 20 minutes-plunge into cold water and slip off skins. Shred beets. Combine sugar, water and vinegar. Put spices in a piece of cheesecloth, tie them & add to vinegar mixture. Bring mixture to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove spices.

Fill hot jars with beets and onions. Add a slice of lemon to each jar and fill with the hot liquid to within a 1/2 inch of the top of jar. Release air bubbles, clean rims, seal and process in a water bath canner for 30 minutes.