Pickled Beets - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 qt. beets
5 tsp. salt
3 c. vinegar
4 c. sugar
2 c. water

Preparation

Cook beets with part of stems and roots still on.
Remove stems and slice if large.
Measure beets.
Recipe is for 5 quarts beets.
Two tablespoons mixed spices may be added also.
Make syrup of sugar, vinegar and water.
Boil 5 minutes.
Add beets, heat through, lift from syrup and pack into jars.
Pour boiling syrup over beets and seal jars with boiling lids.