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!
ReplyDeleteBut what is a coddled egg? I shall google.........
DeleteI love eggs poached in water over buttered toast. Now I'm getting hungry!
ReplyDeleteI tried poaching eggs in a silicon egg thing in the microwave but it exploded! - Back to floating it on water now
DeleteScrambled, 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! 🐣
ReplyDeletePeople on some exercise, keep fit, healthy eating thing only eat the white! _ ugh!
DeleteA coddled egg is a wonderful thing! I gave my Oma an egg coddler once but I don't know if she used it.
ReplyDeleteI've seen egg coddlers for sale - still have to look it up to see what a coddled egg actually is
DeleteI find coddled eggs too rich for me. I have no idea why since I like eggs cooked in lots of other ways.
ReplyDeleteI saw a Royal Worcester Egg Coddler in a charity shop still don't know what people do with it
DeleteNot 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
ReplyDeleteAh yes hard-boiled egg and mayo sandwich - another good way to eat them
DeleteM’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
I shall look up coddled eggs as soon as I get to the end of replying to comments!
DeleteWe 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.
ReplyDeleteThat must be what happens to many egg coddlers - as that's where I've seen them for sale
DeleteThe joy of an abundant supply of fresh eggs from our four hens, boiled, scrambled especially with smoked salmon trimmings, fried or poached, egg custard, in omelettes and frittatas, scotch eggs, bacon and egg pie, baking, brushing a glaze on pastry. I have some egg coddlers somewhere, an egg and a bit of butter, the lid screwed on, then gently simmered in a pan of water, for creamy soft coddled eggs.
ReplyDeleteWe sell the surplus, still £1 for 6, to friends, or give them to the neighbours and the hardworking delivery drivers.
Bargain eggs - thankfully I can still buy for £1 for half a dozen if I pass the roadside stall.
DeleteCoddled eggs are only for upper class people ;) ;) Someone gave me a couple, you butter the inside of the china bit, break an egg in it, pepper and salt, then screw on silver top and simmer for quite a while. As a wedding present, as mine were, they are small enough to give without costing too much money.
ReplyDeleteOh right, poached but encased - I see
DeleteThere used to be quite a market at fair for pretty egg coddlers, lots of people used to collect them and then suddenly they were our of favour.
ReplyDeleteWhat a coincidence, Alan was known as 'the egg man' for while when we lived on the farm. Once a week he would take in about 3 or 4 dozen eggs to sell to his colleagues. The guards on the gate put a label on hi s cool bag eventually because they got fed up of rifling through egg boxes. Oh, and I must be the only blogger who ever gave away goose eggs in a giveaway. :-)
I need to know if anyone reading has an egg coddler collection!!
DeleteMy mum gave me two egg coddlers when the children were small and I used them a lot. Must take them out of the china cabinet and use them again!
ReplyDeleteHope you remember how to use them!
DeleteThe St Ewe eggs, which are from Cornwall are very nice indeed but not cheap
ReplyDelete( cheep?!) I've upped egg consumption too, and like yourself often look back to the days when we kept hens and were never short of eggs.
Alison in Devon x
I must own up to having a collection of egg coddlers in different sizes single, double and even a four egg size one I’ve not used them in a while but used to like to do them with add grated cheese and small bits of ham but really you could put in anything you would add to an omelette but cut up small. Heather
ReplyDeleteI went for a trip round your smallholding - most enjoyable but a lot of hard work for you.
ReplyDeleteI really like eggs but they disagree violently with me so can't eat them - I so wish I could.
I thought "E" was for Ellen! ;)
ReplyDeleteI love eggs. My favorite, I suppose, is over easy, with a nice slice of toast to dip into the yolk. But in thinking about it, I don't think that I have ever met a egg that did not make me happy.
ReplyDeleteI have a whole set of egg coddlers - they were Mum's. Coddled eggs are really nice but poaching is easier . . . xx
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