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Beet Root

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. Roast
  2. Water
  3. Beet
  4. a spoonful of vinegar
  5. Broth
  6. Must
  7. three large onions
  8. Lime
  9. Beetroot
  10. a spoonful of treacle
Contains Sulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Lime High in vitamin C

    High in vitamin C · 29 mg per 100 g, 36% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Limes, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. This cooling and wholesome vegetable is good boiled, and sliced with a small quantity of onion, or stewed with whole onions in the following manner.
  2. Boil the beet tender with the skin on, slice it into a stewpan with a little broth and a spoonful of vinegar.
  3. Simmer it till the gravy is tinged with the colour ;
  4. then put it into a small dish, and make a round of button onions, first boiled tender.
  5. Take off the kin just before serving, and let them be quite hot and clear.
  6. Or roast three large onions, and peel off the outer skins till they look clear ;
  7. and serve round them the stewed beet root.
  8. The root must not be broken before it is dressed, or it will lose its colour, and look ill.
  9. — To preserve beetroot for winter use, they should not be cleared from the earth, but kept in layers of dry sand.
  10. BEETLES.
  11. ' When these insects become troublesome in the house, put some small lumps of quick lime into the chinks or holes of the wall from whence they issue, or scatter it on the ground.
  12. Or at night, lay a spoonful of treacle on a piece of wood, and float it in a pan of water : beetles are so fond of syrup, that they will be drowned in attempting to get at it.
  13. The common black beetle may also be extirpated b^ placing a hedgehog in the room, during the summer nights ;
  14. or by laying a bundle of pea straw near their holes, and afterwards burning it when the beetles have crept into it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler