Friday, September 2, 2016

How To Pickle Eggs - Getting Off The Grid



How To Pickle Eggs - Getting Off The Grid

Many people off the grid or getting of the grid have chickens and collect eggs daily, if you do not use them up or freeze those eggs, or do not use a freezer because of the power usage on the solar, then you can pickle  the eggs! 

I have to say that I will try many recipes, some passed down and some new. But I have this bad habit of changing the recipe to better fit my tastes. Some recipes call for more salt than I consume in a month, some recipes call for so much sugar it`ll rot your teeth with just a sample.

First you have to pick the size of eggs you would like to pickle, I prefer medium because I can get six eggs per pint jar or one dozen per quart jar.

You don`t have to home can pickled eggs, you can just make a batch and put them in the refrigerator, they will keep well for a month when covered in a plastic container or in a glass jar. 

This is my tested and approved ( by everyone that has ever ate one of my pickled eggs) recipe, this will made one quart or two pints.

12 medium size eggs

One white onion

2 cups of white vinegar 

1 tablespoon of pickling spice

1 teaspoon of canning salt

2 tablespoons of white sugar.

Place eggs in a cooking pot and cover with water, bring to boil and cook for five minutes.

Peel onion and slice into thin slivers, set aside.

Remove eggs from heat and drain the hot water, carefully not to burn yourself, and run cold water over the eggs. 

Peel the eggs and put them in clean sterile jars, or the container for th refrigerator, by layering, a few boiled eggs and a few of the onion slivers till the jar or container is filled. 

In a stainless steel cooking pot add the white vinegar, pickling spice, canning salt and sugar. Bring to a rolling boil, turn down the heat to medium low and simmer for five minutes.

Pour the hot liquid over the eggs and onions. 

Note: if you want you can add a couple drops of red food color because the eggs will be brownish from the spices, I do not. Also you can strain the spices from the liquid, I do not.

For canning : Fill jars leaving one inch head space, wipe the rim clean with a damp clean cloth. Add lid. Put in  a water bath canner process five minutes. Remove from canner onto a cloth and allow to cool completely before storing in a cool dark place.

For refrigerator : Let the cool completely before covering with the lid, then refrigerate.

And that is how you make pickled eggs at home! 

Do you make you own? or do you buy what the store has to offer? 

By Andria Perry
Photo By Andria Perry

16 comments:

  1. Hmmm...do they taste similar to pickled in beet juice? I'd definitely try one!

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    1. I am not sure? I know RexTrulove makes then in beet juice, if there is vinegar in that recipe I would say " yes" :)

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    2. I do indeed use vinegar. The beet juice simply gives the eggs a nice pink hue when they are finished pickling.

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  2. I have never tried to pickle an egg. Nor have I ever tasted one. Might be interesting to try this out though. I do pickle a lot of other things like veggies.

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    1. If you like pickled veggies you most likely will like the eggs also.

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    2. Add them to a salad with Italian dressing. That's a good way to get your family to like them.

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    3. Good idea! But everyone loves them here, that is why I canned a couple cases :)

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    1. Thank you :)

      Try it once and if you don`t like it then, try it again somewhere else to make sure the first time it was not spoiled :)

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  4. Oh this sounds yummy and easy to can.

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  5. I remember making these with my mother when I was young.

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    1. These are so good as a snack around here, to hold you over till dinner. No one made these when I was a kid.

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  6. I had to click into here since I have had it in my plans for a couple of weeks to actually pickle some eggs. Definitely a recipe I'll try.

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  7. I like this. Tell how the canner process works?

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