Does anyone else pickle eggs?

[mwilson]

Some years back we used to pickle eggs, loved packing them for my dinner pail. Got out of the habit....

For some reason a couple weeks ago the wife decided to do up a batch and now it's a weekly event. Adding jalapeños and red pepper to them now....

 

[Wayne M.]

Heard about it but never did. So what's the pickle solution? Refrigerated? And that's a neat jar.

 

[mwilson]

Hard boiled eggs, vinegar, water, sugar and a few other things. No refrigeration needed. Old school preservation.

We were using Ball canning jars but found that hum dinger at Crate and Barrel in Kittery, Maine last weekend. Hold 24 large eggs perfectly.

 

[GrantP]

I've looked at that pic several times now and all I see is eggs floating in a brake rotor. ;-)

 

[mwilson]

I've looked at that pic several times now and all I see is eggs floating in a brake rotor. ;-)

Well, I gotta say it does kinda look like that.

But it has been four days since they were put in there so I can eat a few tonight, that will alter the view.......

 

[jhenderson]

We don't pickle,but I remember going to the gas station with my father on Saturdays and seeing a 2.5 gallon jar full of hard boiled eggs and murky water next to the cash register. Dad always dove in but I could never quite bring myself to try one. Later on I figured it had to do with him coming from the County. Pickled eggs and the first thing to hit the frying pan, no matter what was to be cooked was always salt pork. Fine dining.

 

[mwilson]

I wondered if it was a Maine thing....

 

[BIGNASTY]

I wondered if it was a Maine thing....

Sorry for the intrusion Gentlemen, I was checking BIG's mail and seen that he had a couple of TDR notifications & thought why not its been awhile.

Mike

BIG, got me hooked on Pickled Eggs long ago. He made them before we were married to take with him on the road driving his truck.

His Mother was from North Carolina, Pickled Pigs Feet, Hocks, Knuckles were something that she ALWAYS had on the counter in their home all of these were accompanied with Beets.

He also likes something that he picked up in Maine, Fried Dill Pickle Chips.

I don't think that Pickling is something that is only a Maine idea.


Penny

 

[TFucili]

My Mom used to pickle eggs pretty regularly. Generally put red beets in the pickling solution, so the eggs were sorta magenta Haven't had them in a long time.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Sorry I forgot the Pickled Hot Dogs & Vienna Sausage, the hot dogs have to be Nathan's Hot dogs!!!


Penny

 

[jgillott]

My Mom used to pickle eggs pretty regularly. Generally put red beets in the pickling solution, so the eggs were sorta magenta Haven't had them in a long time.

That's the way we do ours here. I love them.

 

[Wayne M.]

The only pickled stuff around was my Mother loved pickled herring (I could never get near it) and actual wood barrell pickles at the store down the corner.

 

[Larry Willard]

My mother always made pickled eggs and beets and the Denise still does as well. She didn't know mom but they are the exact same thing as her mom made.

 

[bigceltic]

Love pickled eggs. Went to school in da U.P., eh (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) and there was a bar called the B&B which made eggs pickled in jalapenos. Very hot and very good. I only make a batch twice a year (if my son had his way I would make them all the time) and they are great. I just buy a big jar of pickled jalapenos from Walmart, heat them up in a big pot with some additional water and white vinegar and pour the mixture over some freshly hard boiled eggs and let them sit for 2 weeks. Oh, and according to the recipe, I have to shake them once a day chanting "ya eggs are good, eh" ;-)

 

[mwilson]

Love pickled eggs. Went to school in da U.P., eh (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) and there was a bar called the B&B which made eggs pickled in jalapenos. Very hot and very good. I only make a batch twice a year (if my son had his way I would make them all the time) and they are great. I just buy a big jar of pickled jalapenos from Walmart, heat them up in a big pot with some additional water and white vinegar and pour the mixture over some freshly hard boiled eggs and let them sit for 2 weeks. Oh, and according to the recipe, I have to shake them once a day chanting "ya eggs are good, eh" ;-)

I do not have that on my recipe....other than the chanting we have a pretty good ingredient match. The vinegar seems to neuter the jalapenos and makes a good balance.

I plan on shaking the jar and chanting as soon as I get home tonight.....

"Ya eggs are good, eh"

Got it!!!

 

[bigceltic]

Here are some good recipes - I use a version of the B&B one myself.


http://www.mtu.edu/alumni/favorites/pasties/recipes/bb.html