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Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> Tomorrow may be Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunk-making day at Dom
> Schallerovych. I paid $6 for 3 bunches (maybe 6-7 per bunch) of beets.
> If I get two pints of PBDC out of them, I'll feel lucky. Steep prices ‹
> last year those would have been dollar bunches.
>
> AFAIC the only edible part of it are the tops. I cooked them down and
> am curious to know if there's anything one might do with them besides
> cooking them and eating them like spinach. Whaddaya think?
>
> While I was thinking about this post, I wondered about the feasibility
> of cream of spinach (or beet greens, as the case may be) soup.
>
> My sister says she freezes the cooked greens. Anyone here ever do that?
> I didn't think so.
> --
> Barb,
> Creamed Cornbread, June 13, 2011; http://web.me.com/barbschaller


Perhaps try making Harvard Beets? Not sure if you've had them, you might
like them better than regular pickled.