Sugar beets?

[waksupi]

I grew some sugar beets for the salad greens. Now I have some whopping big beets. What should I do with them?

[Lloyd Smale]

feed them to the deer. Sugar beats are usually used to make sugar not to eat.

[WARD O]

Try some julianned up as a raw vegie snack. When going hunting here in western Minnesota in the fall there are frequently sugar beets on the highways - they fall off the trucks taking them to staging yards for their train ride to processing. Or you can cook them too!

ward

[gwpercle]

Ask Reverend Al for a recipe...If anyone can prepare them he will know how...and have real scrumptious photo's to go with it.

Gary

[waksupi]

Last year I tried making wine from them. No ca-ca bueno. Maybe I will ration them out to the deer, once season opens. Or may just toss them all in the yard now, no more deer than there are around here.

[gwpercle]

Just out of curiousity, I goggled sugar beet recipes and got very little. Outside of making sugar and syrup, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of cooking and eating them. I called my cajun aunt but she didn't have a recipe, said they didn't grow in Louisiana , maybe the yankee's knowed how to fix them.
Gary

[Janoosh]

Borscht??????

[Reg]

Turn them into sugar then use the sugar to make wine !!!!!! A good sand hill plum ??

[Oreo]

What's the texture like of these? I ask because sugar cane is so tough and fibrous that it cannot be made edible. I'm curious if sugar beets are similar. You should start with a small piece of one, say a 1" cube. If its too hard or bitter to eat raw then boil it checking every few minutes with a fork for tenderness. If it hasn't softened or lost its bitterness in 45min of boiling its not going to. In that case definitely give to the deer. If it does become soft and palletable then you can try including them in a recipe of some kind.

[waksupi]

They slice easy. I chunked some up for the critters.

[Lead Fred]

Makem into mash, and boil them though a copper pipe

[MaryB]

They are not edible, they taste like **** and are very fibrous. Use them to make molasses then rum...

[quilbilly]

Best eating deer I ever tasted was a mule deer buck that had been living on the edge of a sugar beet field all the summer before.

[Beerd]

MaryB said it right.
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[MaryB]

Sugar beet plant near me sends out tankers of molasses for cattle feed and to make alcohol. They don't even make white sugar at this plant.

[TDB9901]

When I was a kid my mother pickled smaller ones that weren't too bad in texture yet, just like a red beet. They were good. The big woody ones just wouldn't work though I'm sure..

[starmac]

Fresh dug ones will bloat and kill calves. I don't know if there is a certain stage they do this in, or even if they would ever hurt deer, but they used to dig them and pile them in big piles at the edge of the field before taking them to the sugar plant, and it would kill cattle that got into them.

[Shiloh]

Had them sliced real thin. Julienne like you would jicama.

Shiloh