Pickled Beets - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 cups sugar (12 tsp. sweetener=1 cup)
4 cups water
4 cups white vinegar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons allspice
1 lemon, cut up in small pieces rind and all

Preparation

Cook beets and peel.
Chop in bite size pieces.
Put cinnamon, allspice and cut up lemon in a cheesecloth and tie it.
Put in brine and boil for 15 minutes.
Put beets in hot sterilized jars and fill each jar with brine to 1/2 to the top.
Wipe the neck of each jars and put a hot lid on each.
Water bath for 15 minutes.
One batch of brine makes about 10 pints.