Looking for a good pickled egg recipe...

Our 15 chickens will soon start to lay and we should be getting a good amount of eggs. Does anyone know a good recipe for pickling a couple of dozen at a time? And can you somehow preserve eggs? Thanks.

PICKLED EGGS
1 cup juice from canned pickled beets
1 cup vinegar
1 clove garlic -- optional
1 bay leaf -- optional
2 tsp. mixed pickling spices
½ tsp. salt
12 hard-boiled eggs -- peeled
1 small onion -- sliced and separated into rings
4 cups water

In large bowl combine beet juice, vinegar, water,
garlic, bay leaf, pickling spices and salt.
Mix well.
Add eggs and onion rings; cover and refrigerate for 5 to 7 days. Makes 12 pickled eggs.

A gallon jar works good for pickling also.

VINEGARY PICKLED EGGS

6 to 9 eggs
2 cups vinegar (plus)
½ tsp. ground mustard
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. pepper
cloves (optional)

Boil eggs for about 20 minutes to hard-cooked stage.
Run cold water on them.
Boil vinegar in another pan.
Make a smooth paste of the mustard, salt and pepper with a little cold vinegar.
Add paste to the boiling vinegar.
Stir for about 1 minute.
Put peeled eggs in a jar and pour hot mixture over them.
Cover and put in the refrigerator for about 2 weeks.
For extra flavor, you may stick up to 4 cloves in each egg.




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Thanks Angel. Recipes copied. I want to try your first recipe right away!!

[Katherine]

I've made pickled eggs by putting hard-boiled eggs into a jar of pickle juice after the pickles are eaten. Leave it a few days before eating them.
Use fresh pickle juice each time, don't reuse it.

Vlasic Zesty dill pickle juice might be very good mmmmmm. I'll have to try it. Never thought of that. Now I'll have to try both of these. Thanks.

[This message has been edited by Jesse (edited 12-15-2000).]