Old Wives Tale???

[Ridgerunner]

How many do you use when baking a cake?

Same question for bantam eggs, duck eggs, double yolked eggs. How many when baking? I'd suggest go by weight.

As far as not eating them, that has to be an old wives tale. How you eat them may be the question.

 

[centrarchid]

If you are in a hurry, some products you discard for purpose of consistency. I am doing exactly that now with lots of fish, 1,000's.

Many old wives tails have some logic that may no longer be applicable or is simply lost to time.

 

[WVduckchick]

I've seen a few first eggs with meat spots, blood spots, no yolks, etc. Could be part of the reasoning?

 

[21hens-incharge]

I've seen a few first eggs with meat spots, blood spots, no yolks, etc. Could be part of the reasoning?

Could be but I crack into a bowl so can easily discard unacceptable eggs.

 

[townchicks]

I ate mine. Yum!

 

[WVduckchick]

Could be but I crack into a bowl so can easily discard unacceptable eggs.

I always crack mine in bowls first. I have too many broodys, and if I happen to collect a slightly developed one, I think that might ruin a cake.

 

[perchie.girl]

Same question for bantam eggs, duck eggs, double yolked eggs. How many when baking? I'd suggest go by weight.

As far as not eating them, that has to be an old wives tale. How you eat them may be the question.

Go by weight. But you can do what i have done in the past with banam eggs. 1 and 1/2 bantam eggs are equal to 1 chicken egg. So when making Quiche My recipe called for six eggs. So I used nine bantam eggs.

Alot of first eggs may not have a yolk in them... Toss em in an omlette with other eggs... lIght and fluffy.

But with Guinea Fowl eggs Id go with straight eating and not baking.... Use em in omelettes Guinea Eggs have a larger ratio of Yolk to albumen They make awesome Deviled eggs if you can get the Dam% things out of the shell.

deb

 

[MROO]

Yeah, that makes sense...but why 'not eating' them?

The "Don't eat it" rule is probably just a holdover from earlier times, when superstitions guided pretty much everything. In a time when no one really knew where sickness came from, it seems logical to attribute it to something strange - and a new layer's eggs can definitely be strange. Some "first eggs" are yolk-less, malformed or - heaven forbid - tiny. Not many people would eat anything that had an abnormality - or worse, possibly a hex- on it, so they just threw it out.
Hurrah for modern science ... most of the time, anyway!

 

[MROO]

I always crack mine in bowls first. I have too many broodys, and if I happen to collect a slightly developed one, I think that might ruin a cake.

It would definitely ruin my stomach for dessert, anyway!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Years ago a college educated person told me....
"You cannot eat the first eggs a hen lays."

Of course I wanted to know why.

The answer was "well they are full of yucky stuff." ...... Yes the words "yucky stuff" were used by this educated person.

He could not elaborate at all. His education was NOT in farming or ranching!

My personal experiences have been that the first eggs are perfectly fine, small but fine.