Author Topic: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus  (Read 3225 times)

darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
« 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

all the best sue
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poppajohn

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • Fenland
  • Grass cutting, what old fellers do!
Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
« Reply #1 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.

darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
« Reply #2 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
To follow my travel journal see http://www.theworldismylobster.org.uk

For lots of info about Marans and how to breed and look after them see www.darkbrowneggs.info

poppajohn

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • Fenland
  • Grass cutting, what old fellers do!
Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
« Reply #3 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.

northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Fife
    • North Fife Blog
Re: Eggs - What to do with the spring surplus
« Reply #4 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  :&>

 

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