Can someone help me cook a beet?

[digitS']

Now you've got me curious, @britesea!

People pay good $ for raw sugar. My mom did! It tastes like sugar ... I wandered off to Wikipedia just now to try to get an idea of what processing those sugar factories do to make their products. (And, why they produce such a horrid amount of black smoke doing it !)

What did you call it, "incredibly easy?" Yeah! It doesn't look so tuff! All that black smoke might be just the burning of the "by-products" as fuel for all the boiling. I wonder what they could do to be a little better neighbors ..?

Lime and carbonation for whitening and more boiling, seeding with already produced sugar crystals, centrifuge - all that could left out ... Perhaps the cone-shape in the world's markets elsewhere is just a way to dry wet, raw sugar!

Someone could do this. White beets as well as sugar beet seeds are out there !

Steve

 

[AMKuska]

Okay so I tried my cake this morning (for breakfast ;-) )

It's pretty good. It tastes mostly like a chocolate raspberry cake, but it has a different texture and hints at molasses, even though there is no molasses in it. Very sweet.

 

[digitS']

Did you use the alternative (coconut & almond) flours, @AMKuska ?

Red Velvet cake sounds awfully good about now ...

You know, with the cold, fog and all.

Steve
who still has some red ace beets in the garden

 

[baymule]

@AMKuska we are watching you explore new horizons you never knew existed----and all because of your little garden! And then you bring something new to us--beet cake!! Who knew??

 

[Nyboy]

My mother used to serve can beets they where jelled blobs that where nasty. All my life I thought beets where gross. One night while eating out I had the most amazing roasted vegtable, I had no idea what it was, so I asked the waiter.To my surprize he said beets !!!

 

[Ridgerunner]

I had that experience with Brussels sprouts and asparagus, served at school out of a can. They were so awful it took courage to even try them as an adult but when fresh and cooked right, they are good. Beets were OK but not great as a kid, but now when I cook my own beets they are one of my favorites. I can a lot of beets and those are still good.

 

[AMKuska]

Did you use the alternative (coconut & almond) flours, @AMKuska ?

Red Velvet cake sounds awfully good about now ...

You know, with the cold, fog and all.

Steve
who still has some red ace beets in the garden

Yes, I chose to follow the recipe exactly the first time around. I usually end up changing a few things after I try it, but at least I know what the original looks like!

 

[AMKuska]

 

[britesea]

This summer, just when my beets were ready, my back blew out on me. I was confined to bed for a couple of weeks so I told my girlfriend to come out and help herself to whatever was ripe in the garden. She took a large number of beets and cooked them up for dinner with guests. One of the guests was a little 3 year old girl that had never tried beets before. After some coaxing, she finally took a bite. She ended up eating nothing else for dinner-- the adults had to fight for a share of the beets, lol

 

[Smart Red]

Yes, @digitS', and the golden beets are easy to grow as well.
@britesea, for sugaring, mangles (a.k.a. sugar beets) are most often used. These grow much bigger than the beets we usually grow in the garden for table use.
@AMKuska, the reason -- as Steve says -- you will always have to thin your beets is because each of the seeds you put into the garden are actually mini-bundles of several seeds. No matter how carefully you think you have spaced the seeds you will have many tiny plants coming up close together.