Wash carefully, neither cutting nor scraping that juice and color may be preserved. Boil until tender. In summer {his will take an hour, in winter at least three hours. Slice hot and season with plenty of butter, pepper, salt and a little vinegar, and serve. Slice some up for pickles and put in cold spiced vinegar, or plain vinegar. The tops, and the young beets thinned out, make excellent greens.

Young Beets

Boil and slice. Pour over them the following sauce:

1 teacupful vinegar. 1 teaspoonful butter. 1 teaspoonful sugar.

Let it boil up and turn over the beets. Serve hot. Young beets are very nice sliced hot and served with cream or rich milk, seasoned with butter, pepper and salt. Let it boil up and pour over the beets.