Cwikla Recipe - Cooking Index
3 cups | 711ml | Beets - cooked or |
Sliced | ||
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Fresh horseradish - grated (or use about |
- 4 t prepared horseradish) | ||
8 | -- whole (or use | |
1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Caraway seed) |
2 cups | 474ml | Vinegar |
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Brown sugar |
2 teaspoons | 10ml | Salt |
Layer beets in a glass or earthenware bowl, sprinkling layers with horseradish and cloves.
Boil vinegar with sugar and salt 2 minutes. Pour over the beets. Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.
NOTES:
* Pickled beets -- This recipe could be used as part of a 12-course meal known in Polish as Wigilia, or on its own. Wigilia is eaten after sundown on Christmas Eve. Yield: Serves 4-6.
: Original recipe passed down through the generations and translated from Polish into English (with a few mods) by Edward Chrzanowski : MFCF, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : [email protected] or
Source:
Pat Hanneman (1997)
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