When these are opened in the winter, you will think you are eating fresh beets from the garden.
Then remove the skin and if the beets are large slice them, as you would for table use.
Also beets and turnips came up in the sea-weed used for manure in many parts of the Cape.
The same quantity of beets was treated per 24 hours, and the general temperature remained the same.
The manure, heavily applied to the corn, will leave enough nitrogen and other plant food in the soil to make a good crop of beets and avoid any danger of an excess.
Sugar beets have been made by seed-selection to produce about double the percentage of sugar that they did a few years ago.
If the beets get too warm they will ferment and some of their sugar will be lost.
The amount of sugar that can be obtained from beets varies from twelve to twenty per cent.
The mature beets are richer in sugar than the immature, therefore they should not be harvested too soon.
When the outside leaves of the beet take on a yellow tinge and drop to the ground, the beets are ripe.
In order to economize space, beets or lettuce may be grown between the asparagus rows during this first season.
It is of course important to grow seeds that will produce beets containing much sugar.
Put in a crockery vessel a layer of rye straw, moisten it slightly, place the beets on it, cover the vessel, and place it in a slow oven for five or six hours; cool and skin them.
Boil a bunch of red beets for half an hour in water to cover, then drain and bake for half an hour in a hot oven.
Add an equal amount of cooked meat cut into dice and half the quantity each of boiled potatoes, sour apples, and beets chopped fine.
Small beets that run 40 to a quart are the most suitable size for first-class packs.
Beets |Must not be placed in too large piles in the cellar as they |are inclined to mold.
Small beets that run forty to a quart are less likely to fade and are the most suitable size for first-class packs.
Well-canned beets will show a slight loss of color when removed from the canner, but will brighten up in a few days.
The older the beets the more chance there is for loss of color.
If peeled or sliced before being fermented the beets lose considerable color and flavor.
Beets should be blanched for five minutes and the skin should be scraped but not peeled.
Beets must be scrubbed thoroughly and packed whole.
Beets and rhubarb when packed in tin must be put in enamel-lined cans.
Spain is unable to furnish; so that it is to the land of the Stars and Stripes that Cuba must look, since, as long as beets are grown in Europe, the product of the sugar cane will find no market on the European side of the Atlantic.
It shades the beetsin the morning, and the tomatoes in the afternoon!
She attacked a bed of beets and hoed until the perspiration ran from her face and body, then she began on the potatoes.
Peas ripened, and green corn was on the board, and potatoes blossomed, and young beets were pulled, and peaches began to come.
Radishes were on the tea-table, and lettuce made the dinner "another thing;" and rows of springing beets and carrots looked like plenty in the future.
The reader has probably concluded, by this time, that beetsand corn are not the only enormous things grown in Illinois.
When the beetshave cooked on slow fire until white, strain off and add the honey.
Lay them in plenty of boiling water, with a little vinegar; boil them steadily, keeping them well covered with water for about one and one-half to two hours for small beets and two to three and one-half hours for large ones.
BAKED BEETS Boil large beetroot about two hours, being careful not to pierce it.
These plants make delicious greens, and even the tops of the ordinary market beets are good if properly prepared.
With a scissors cut in pieces as small as dice, add one-half cup of English walnuts cut fine, one tablespoon of boiled beets cut fine, two tablespoons of capers, one large apple cut in small pieces and one dill pickle cut up.
Ornament with quarters of hard-boiled eggs, boiled beets cut in fancy slices and a fringe of parsley around the edge of the bowl.
BEET SALAD Boil beetswhen tender, skin quickly white hot and slice them into a bowl.
Add all the vinegar the horseradish and beets will absorb, and place in covered jar or glass and it is ready for use.
When the juice of these crushed beetsis boiled and refined, it makes a sugar exactly like cane sugar and much cheaper.
Tons and tons of sugar-beets are grown throughout the farming lands, and harvested in September.
The system of taxation favored the exportation of sugar, and in such a manner that the revenue of the taxes on sugar-beets and on the consumption of sugar was to a considerable extent employed as bounties for exportation.
The high profit obtained from the cultivation of beets also caused a rise in the price of property.
In this manner they save the heavy expense of shipping the raw material, for instance, potatoes and grain for the manufacture of alcohol, beets for sugar, cereals for flour or for brewing beer, etc.
We have already pointed to the cultivation of sugar-beets and the manufacture of sugar for export.
For a number of years a portion of our farmers derived enormous profits from the cultivation of beets and the manufacture of sugar connected with it.
They cultivate beets for the manufacture of sugar, and potatoes and grain for the manufacture of whiskey, instead of wheat and rye for bread.
Boiled beets cut in slices, and put in cold spiced vinegar for several days, are very nice.
Beets should not be cut or scraped before they are boiled, or the juice will run out, and make them insipid.
Clean eight smooth beets with a soft cloth or brush; bake them in a moderate oven about one hour; rub off the skin, baste them with butter and lemon juice, return them to the oven for five minutes, and serve them hot.
Brushing the discarded onions, turnip, and beets into a pail under the table, she was still confronted with the beefsteak, lettuce, and grapefruit.
OF Beetsthere are two sorts, which are best known generally, and whereof I shall principally treat at this time, viz.
The government of these two sorts of Beets are far different; the red Beet being under Saturn and the white under Jupiter; therefore take the virtues of them apart, each by itself.
Beets, white, black, and red; blackBeets I have no knowledge of.
Of Beets, black, white, and red; as for black Beets I have nothing to say, I doubt they are as rare as black swans.
Spread one piece of bread with cream cheese, the other with beets that have been chopped very fine and seasoned with French dressing.
Stir the dressing into the cucumber and fill the beets with the mixture.
Cauliflower broken into flowerets, string beans cut into small pieces, and beets cut in fancy shapes or chopped.
For lunch they gave us boiled sugar-beets or some other vegetable, and once in a while some kind of pickled meat, but that happened very seldom.
That night I found more rivers, canals, and swamps than I ever found in my life before, but I had the good fortune to stumble on to some celery, and after my diet of beets it surely was a treat.
All have more or less cellulose, that in lettuce being very tender, while that in beets is so firm as to be softened only by long cooking.
May be used with old beets of rank flavor, strong onions, old potatoes, or potatoes boiled with the skins on.
Thick skins such as those of old beets are more easily removed after cooking.
Refined sugar made from cane and beets should be given to children sparingly.
Beets are good baked, and especially is this true of sugar beets.
They are best if the beets are pulled very young and both the roots and the leaves are used.
Cane sugar is taken principally from sugar beets and sugar cane.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
