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Jakebob

  • Joined Jul 2009
  • Stirling
Too many eggs!
« on: August 29, 2010, 01:44:06 pm »
Help....I have too many eggs, we dont have hens at the moment but my mum and my friend keeps giving us eggs and I don't have the heart to say...no thanks!!

Any ideas what I could make thats uses eggs n eggs n more eggs??

I do bake a lot.

We also have 5 apple trees in the garden, quite a lot of them are ready too.

I have already made apple crumble and stewed 2 batches of apples, Im going to put the stewed apples in the freezer.

geebee

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • N,E.Fife
Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 02:25:33 pm »
well i'm not a baker, but love meringue, so anything topped with meringue as a variation on lemon meringue pie? my (ex) mothr-in-law made a fantastic light cake, she calls Angel Cake, using the whites of 16 eggs, I've yet to get the recipe but if I do will pass it on

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 03:03:27 pm »
How about mayonnaise and lemon curd, preserves them and you cant beat homemade!

HappyHippy

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Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 03:09:03 pm »
Pickled eggs  :P Okay, maybe not !
Best suggestion I can come up with is yorkshire puddings and victoria sponges I'm afraid and french toast for breakfast every day  ;) ;D

doganjo

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Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2010, 03:27:47 pm »
I think you can freeze them if you separate the whites from the yolks, but then that only puts off the moment when you really need to say, 'Well actually, I have plenty left this week  as we haven't used so many.' or 'Hmm, maybe not for a while as the kids/hubby have gone off them a bit.' ;D
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Sharondp

  • Joined Jun 2009
Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2010, 04:29:33 pm »
Try HFW's tortilla - uses 10 eggs.

River Cafe's chocolate nemesis uses 10 eggs too.

My courgette loaf in the recipe section uses 5 eggs

That's 2 dozen gone already!  ;D

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2010, 04:54:45 pm »
To use the apples and eggs together, apple Charlotte ie sponge instead of crumble topping.  Freezes well.
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sarha

  • Joined Jun 2010
  • East Sussex
Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2010, 08:32:39 am »
 ;D Whats wrong with pickled eggs happyhippy?!
I make quiet a few!
They are lovely pickled in balsamic vinegar or a mixture or malt/balsamic with a few dried chillies.
I'm lucky tho, my kids love'em!
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darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
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Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2010, 11:02:12 am »
In the past I have used Isinglass to preserve them.  From memory the spring glut lasts until you need them for Christmas baking.  You don't use them for boiled egg but mainly cooking purposes. 

You used to be able to buy it from the Chemist, but you could probably get it of t'internet now.  Eggs are best put in fresh, and clean but not washed. (again from memory - last time I did it was about 15 years ago)

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Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2010, 09:28:15 am »
Get your self an enamel or tin bucket(not plastic) and some waterglass. Make up the waterglass to a bucketful and add clean eggs to it daily. Always keep the eggs well submerged. Then you will have eggs for when your girls stop laying.
They are good for anything except frying or poaching(the white goes a bit runny)
If you can fit a lid to the bucket this will help stop evaporation.

darkbrowneggs

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Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2010, 10:12:34 am »
Yes Slyvia - You are right it was Waterglass :o  What a fool - we used Isinglass to stick the corded bit back round the Aga lids - Isinglass would be a disaster for preserving eggs  :-[ Go job you posted   Sue
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northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
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Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2010, 12:17:21 pm »
I freeze them in batches, what I am most likely to need in the months with no eggs - 3 duck for cakes, 4 scrambled (uncooked, lol) for quiches, hens' seperated for tarts and pies,...
meant to try the waterglass method but did not get round to it, so the cream cheese tubs came in handy, just the right size for freezing :&>

suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Too many eggs!
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2010, 05:59:48 pm »
I separate them freeze them individually.

I put small muffin cases in a muffin tray and put one yolk in each case.

Similarly with the whites except I use large muffin cases and a correspondingly large muffin tray

Once they have frozen I peel off the paper cases (the base needs a VERY quick dip in hot water) and freeze in bags of six.

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