Red Beet Eggs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
4 cloves
1 (No. 2) can beets
1 c. vinegar
1/2 c. sugar

Preparation

Drain and measure juice from beets.
Add enough water to make 1 cup.
To this juice add vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper and cloves, then bring to a boil.
Pour this hot liquid over beets and let stand 24 hours.
Remove beets and add 6 hard-cooked eggs.
Let stand in juice 8 hours.
If you like eggs a dark red, put 1 teaspoon of red coloring in juice before adding eggs.