Dear group: I know some of you will wish I wouldn't bring this up again, but I can't resist. Early Saturday morning I suddenly realized I had to bring something for a potluck picnic at lunchtime today. Ordinarily this kind of thing sends me into a several-days panic, because I am virtually a non-cook, and I always think, they don't really need one more bowl of pasta salad from me, some of them are good at that sort of thing, what can I do? But this time, thanks to this group, I had an inspiration. I have been to quite a few of these things down heah in Durm Nawth Ca'lina, and I have never seen the pickled beets and eggs offered. So, I made some, and they were a big success. I made a dozen and I suppose there were 40 adults there, and they disappeared before everyone had gone through the line, even though there was also a platter of the more-familar deviled eggs. A lot of these people are not actually Southerners but transplanted Yankees like me. One older lady was heard to say "I haven't had those for a thousand years." This is an exaggeration, but she is about 80, and she said her grandmother was from Pennsylvania and she made them, which can't have been very recently. In the process I arrived at a quick-and-dirty, non-cooking recipe: 1 dozen eggs 2 16 oz jars DelMonte or Stokeley's sliced pickled beets (I bought both brands because I didn't know. It will gladden all your PD hearts to know that I thought the Stokeley's, which are cheaper, had a slightly stronger flavor of nostalgia, but the difference is not great.) Hard boil and peel the eggs. Put them, still warm, in a 1 1/2 quart casserole. Dump on the two jars of beets, with juice (especially juice!). Cover and refrigerate 24 hours, stopping by several times in the early going to stir and tumble them about so they will be evenly empurpled (I don't know why people insist on calling this color red; it is actually magenta). Drain before serving. That is all, and while I'm sure you can complicate it with onion rings or whatever, the point here is simplicity. The result might not impress all you connoiseurs from Pennsylvania, but that's not who it was for, and I thought it was quite passable. So thank you all for the idea; I suppose I shall now become the great pickled-egg revival lady for North Carolina. -- jan <janiceaf@ix.netcom.com> Interested in names: FRANK, KELLER, PENROSE, SCHULTZ