Bantam eggs

[crooked stripe]

Is there anything special you folks do with bantam eggs. They are so small there can't be much to them. I just started getting some 2/1/09. My daughter wanted some for hatching so I saved the first small bunch. My 5 BO's keep me eggs for eating and cooking.

 

[Teach97]

Instead of eating a couple eggs I eat 4 eggs...kinda like with the quail eggs...I eat a dozen of them

 

[MicMoo]

I use our bantam eggs for everything but usually increase the number eggs by 1-1/2 to 2 times whatever the recipe calls for.

For the last couple of family potlucks I've made deviled eggs and they're a 'huge' hit because they're smaller than what people expect. For Superbowl Sunday, I boiled a dozen eggs to devil. After filling 12 egg-halves with the normal yellow filling (Pittsburgh Steelers) I added red food color to the mix so the other 12 would have red filling (Arizona Cardinals). Naturally there was a problem... each team can only have 11 people on the field at one time so the DS and I each had to eat one before the party.

 

[tcal]

Pickle them!

 

[jbowyer01]

I use my bantie eggs, I just double them. If it calls for 2 eggs I use 3 to 4 of them depending how small they are. I do like the idea of pickeling (sp) them.

 

[windtryst]

The are great, use them for eveything...just use more of them. The yolks are quite large.

 

[2468Chickensrgr8]

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OMG thats funny !!! What a creative mind !! you have !!!

I too increase the number of eggs I put in a recipe by a half....All my eggs are different sizes....so if the recipe calls for two large eggs I add 2 medium size eggs and a wee bantam (or two).

Now I am going to save my bantams for deviled eggs !!!

 

[crooked stripe]

I pickled some as suggested. I put them in with beets and then in the frig to marinate. Yesterday my granddaughter ask for some of the large jelly beans for a snack so I gave her one. What a look I got.

 

[Matt A NC]

Bite size deviled eggs. Takes some time to peel all but well worth it. We took several dozen to a Xmas dinner and none were left. In fact they were looking for more. My bantams were free ranging at the time and the yolks were especially dark and rich.

I like them scrambled too. Percentage wise Bantam eggs have more yolk than a standard egg. Gives my omelettes the taste I really like.

Matt

 

[BB3]

My wife boils and pickles them with beets, eww, but she made me try one.
I' ve thought of selling them as All Natural Organic Eggs.

or at least natural.