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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: darkbrowneggs on April 24, 2011, 10:51:18 am

Title: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
Post by: darkbrowneggs on April 24, 2011, 10:51:18 am

Hi All - this time of year everyone seems to have extra eggs and its always good to have something different to use them up with so I have put a page on my website with links to some recipe ideas.  Some old ones and some ones I havent tried yet myself

Check it out (moderators - hope its ok to include the link if not bin it) and let me know if there are good ones I have left out or if its not working properly  :)

Egg Recipes (http://www.darkbrowneggs.info/#/egg-recipes/4550782262)

all the best sue

Title: Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
Post by: poppajohn on April 24, 2011, 03:48:48 pm

Thanks Sue, we set ours in Vaseline for storing. These keep for about six months and are used for scrambled and baking, they fry a treat too. My ma used to use Isinglass but I find the Vaseline method easy and quick. I keep meaning to try drying but its a fag. We pickle too and take the jars to "do's" to sell.

Title: Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
Post by: darkbrowneggs on April 24, 2011, 07:19:02 pm

Hi there - that's interesting.  Do you mean you rub them all over with vaseline to keep the air out?  Surely they are not set in pots of vaseline, that would be way to expensive. :o

I have heard about rubbing them over with lard as an old-fashioned method to prolong storage, though have'nt tried it myself.

all the best
Sue

Title: Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
Post by: poppajohn on April 25, 2011, 10:49:23 am

Sorry will explain better! Rub any muck of with wire wool or a scour pad. Then smear a film of Vaseline all over and store in egg trays in a dark cool place. We have kept them six months that way with only the odd bad one.

Title: Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
Post by: northfifeduckling on April 26, 2011, 10:48:24 pm

thanks, Sue  ;D can you add a cross reference to this in the recipe section - I'm sure you'll find the relevant post easily  :&>