Pickled Beets - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lbs beets, greens removed (couple inches of greens left on)
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup beet juice
3 tablespoons sugar
2 cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 peppercorns
1/4 bay leaf

Preparation

Wash the dirt off the beets.
In a covered pan cook whole beets in boiling salted water until tender (35-50 minutes).
Cool slightly, cut off remaining greens and slip off skins.
Save 1/2 cup of the beet juice (water beets were cooked in).
Cut up beets the way you want them.
Put in a clean, empty jar.
In a small pan bring the beet juice and the remaining ingredients to a boil.
Pour the hot liquid mixture over the beets.
Let come to room temperature and then chill.