Dark & Spicy
Refrigerated Pickled Eggs
Refrigerated Pickled Eggs
This past year we have made some new and exciting changes to our lifestyles. We have added chickens to our garden/farm which I am sure I will be blogging about soon. We are changing the way we eat as well. Wanting to make some items at home so that I can basically control & know more of where my ingredients come from & how they are made, I am learning different and new ways to make homemade goods. I am doing things that I never would have thought that I would be doing almost 12 years ago before I met my husband. So this summer on top of my crochet projects & part-time job, I want to expand my knowledge of canning & preserving.
Anyway, Sunday night on our way home from church we were having a conversation in the car with the kids and ended up talking about Fermentation. We were talking about foods that could be fermented and the topic of pickled eggs came up & my husband wants to try them. So, last night when I got home, I got online and looked for a recipe & found one to try today. I wanted something a little different than the typical recipes that I found searching the Internet and Pinterest. This is the recipe that I decided to make, the recipe is courtesy of Simply Canning.
How to make Refrigerated Pickled Eggs (Dark & Spicy Eggs)
Pickled Eggs start off with boiled eggs. I discovered oven baking hard eggs through one of my daily searches on Pinterest. I have tried this method several times & we love the results. I recently had to get a new gas range & still learning how to cook/bake with it, so I am having to adjust how long and at what temperature I need to bake eggs. As mentioned earlier we have added chickens and some of those are egg layers, so I use Farm Fresh Eggs. I have yet to perfect my shell peeling technique so my eggs were not picture perfect or there would be a picture below of how my eggs looked after peeling the shells of the eggs. This was not my favorite part & I got frustrated a bit because I could get the shells of as easily as I would have liked.
After that step is done, the recipe says to combine all ingredients
Ingredients:
- 11/2 cups cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 T dark brown sugar
- 2 tsp granulated sugar
- 1 tsp mixed pickling spice
- 1/2 tsp liquid smoke or hickory smoke salt
- 2 tsp salt
Directions:
Bring Ingredients to a boil, then reduce heat & simmer for about 5 minutes.
While ingredients are simmering, pack one dozen peeled, hard-baked eggs loosely into a warm quart jar. I used a quart mason jar. Sorry no picture of this step. I actually only had 11 eggs because while peeling the eggs, one got away from me and I had to eat it with sprinkled with salt (Yummy).
Once the eggs are in jar, pour the liquid brine over the eggs in the jar. Completely cover the eggs & place a lid on the jar. Refrigerate immediately.
Should be ready in 2-3 weeks. You are done, pretty simple recipe. The recipe does state that these eggs are to be refrigerated & not to be stored on the shelf. Since it can take up to 3 weeks to be ready, I had purchase some dissolvable canning labels from Ball which can be purchased at your local store. I bought mine at Wal-Mart. This will be my reminder of when we can try these pickled eggs. Looking forward or shall I say my husband is looking forward to trying these out. I on the other hand am not completely sure if I would like pickled eggs. Guess we shall find out later on this month.
