Sweet-and-Sour
Harvard Beets

Harvard Beets Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 pound 12 ounces cooked (4-5 medium-size beets), or canned red beets (about 3 cups sliced)
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup cider vinegar or dry white wine
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 whole cloves
• 2 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon orange marmalade (optional), or
• ½ teaspoon cider vinegar for serving

1. Slice or dice cooked or canned beets.
2. In the top of a double-boiler stir until smooth sugar, wine, starch, salt and cloves. Cook over simmering water, stirring, until clear.
3. Add the beets and let them stand over hot water, off the heat, for about 30 minutes. Just before serving, reheat the beets just until heated through. Add butter and marmalade.

6 servings

Use less sugar and serve with cider vinegar rather than marmalade if you prefer less sweet and more sour-tasting beets.

If you don’t have a double boiler, make the sauce in a saucepan on a very low heat, stirring constantly, so that it does not become lumpy. Or, make your own double boiler by putting a heat-proof bowl over a saucepan with simmering water. The bottom of the bowl should not touch the water.