Come with me around the field...................that's what I said in March 2014. The link will take you around the field at the smallholding when we regularly kept between 120 and 180 chickens and sold eggs at the gate. In the County Council Highways Bridge Office where Colin worked, when he wasn't out bridge inspecting, he was known as the 'egg man' because every Monday morning he would take in a several dozen eggs for all his colleagues.
Nowadays eggs have to come from a shop or, more preferably, a roadside stall, I'm sure they're not so good as our own were, and now I often find I've run out of eggs, just when I want to bake a cake and that's something that never happened in chicken-keeping days! Buying from the village shop is an expensive business - £2.25 for half a dozen , the ones I can get from the roadside stall are still just £1- a real bargain.
I've been eating more eggs lately, trying to push up protein intake a little. Usually scrambled or poached on toast. Fried are good too but what on earth are coddled eggs? And who owns an egg coddler in the 21st century?
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I haven't got an egg coddler but I coddle eggs in a ramekin. Delicious!
ReplyDeleteI love eggs poached in water over buttered toast. Now I'm getting hungry!
ReplyDeleteScrambled, or omelettes. I don't like boiled or poached or fried wherethe egg white is cooked separately, it has to be mixed with the yolk! 🐣
ReplyDeleteA coddled egg is a wonderful thing! I gave my Oma an egg coddler once but I don't know if she used it.
ReplyDeleteI find coddled eggs too rich for me. I have no idea why since I like eggs cooked in lots of other ways.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what a coddled egg is? I love omelettes, scrambled and hard boiled eggs and an egg mayo sandwich. Still a reasonably priced source of protein we eat a lot of eggs. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteM’thinks (if memory serves) that coddled eggs are similar to poached eggs but were enclosed in a container (a coddler?) into which other flavourings could be added before the it was cooked in boiling water. Sometimes I think that old ideas are discarded for the sake oof new but no improvement is actually achieved, I guess that’s how business makes money.
ReplyDeleteI love eggs in all cooked forms and I too am endeavouring to raise my protein intake, I feel a coddler search upcoming m’thinks
We were given an lovely pair of china egg coddlers for a wedding present, but we never used them...so pased them on recently to someone who might via the local charity shop.
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