What do you do with all those eggs?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I promised a friend that I would make him a cake for his promotion and transfer. I haven't made this in awhile and when I looked at the recipe I thought I would share it here. This is a delicious cake anytime of the year and a favorite of the guys in the office I used to work in before I retired. And it uses 4 eggs. Enjoy just one more way to use those eggs. I got this recipe off the internet so it's not mine but t's amazing!

 

[IamRainey]

Wow! We're getting chicks any day now - but we're only allowed 3 hens, we will never have too many eggs. One teen takes 2 hardboiled eggs in her lunch every day, and one spouse takes 4. Plus we make our own mayo, and most of the family adores devilled eggs made with the mayo. I know our pastor's family keeps chickens, I see Lisa bringing cartons of eggs she sells. Heck, see if there's a homeless shelter that could use eggs.

Really fresh eggs and homemade mayo! YUM!!! One of the first foods I ever had when we lived in France. It was a standard on any menu and I was stunned at how yellow their mayo made from fresh egg yolks was!

Why can you only have 3 hens?

We started with 3 and they just met my husband's need and my own! Now we have 6 hens and we're giving half away on a regular basis to our kids, the neighbors and my housekeeper.

I always chose my hens for their appearance. I want a pretty and diverse looking flock but somehow I've managed to get really good layers. My 6 now regularly give me an average of 5 eggs a day. And my Cream Legbar lays all through the Winter without any supplemental lighting. I've never seen CLs recommended for strong egg laying but my Lavina is a champ! And the other girls all do an excellent job as well.

Here's a tip: buy the eggs you want to hard boil. ...at least until you can accumulate a stash of eggs that are a couple weeks old. Really fresh eggs are a bear to peel.

 

[IamRainey]

Deviled eggs are the best! Do you use a specific mayonnaise recipe? My recipe failed. ;(

Mayo is best made by hand. I find that things like hand blenders and food processors are too fast and too rough and get too hot. They can produce a bitter-flavored mayo. Particularly with olive oil.

Use a really large whisk to incorporate a lot of air. Let your yolks come up to room temp before you start. Add some lemon juice and a bit of mustard -- they help with the emulsification. Then whisk like mad at first dribbling in the oil VERY slowly. Once you get an emulsification you can back off on the speed of your whisking and increase the flow of your oil.

The mythology in France is that you only ever whisk in one direction. Clockwise or counterclockwise at your preference, but only one way. Personally, I think it's silly but I do it for the sake of tradition.

 

[Celticdragonfly]

Why can you only have 3 hens?

That's the ciry regulation here. I don't like it.

 

[CaramelKittey]

Mayo is best made by hand. I find that things like hand blenders and food processors are too fast and too rough and get too hot. They can produce a bitter-flavored mayo. Particularly with olive oil.

Use a really large whisk to incorporate a lot of air. Let your yolks come up to room temp before you start. Add some lemon juice and a bit of mustard -- they help with the emulsification. Then whisk like mad at first dribbling in the oil VERY slowly. Once you get an emulsification you can back off on the speed of your whisking and increase the flow of your oil.

The mythology in France is that you only ever whisk in one direction. Clockwise or counterclockwise at your preference, but only one way. Personally, I think it's silly but I do it for the sake of tradition.

Hi!

Thanks for the tips! I'm definitely going to try it again! I didn't want to give up on mayo but I couldn't find an easy recipe, but thanks to your help, I got one!

I'll try and post pictures of the results if I remember!
Thank you!

 

[IamRainey]

You know, I learned when I was living in France after college. There really wasn't a recipe. You just added some salt, some lemon juice and some mustard to an egg yolk and beat them to combine. Then you started dribbling in your oil while you whisked like mad. Finally, you kept adding oil until it was started getting more shiny -- an indication it couldn't absorb any more oil -- or you were happy with the color. Either way it came out fine. ...and you wanted to put your arm in a sling.

You can add a LOT of oil to an egg yolk if you do it right! But if you don't add all the oil it can absorb it's fine too.

 

[Celticdragonfly]

You know, I learned when I was living in France after college. There really wasn't a recipe. You just added some salt, some lemon juice and some mustard to an egg yolk and beat them to combine. Then you started dribbling in your oil while you whisked like mad.

We use a food processor, and whole eggs, not just yolks. I think he adds the lemon juice at the end.

 

[Happy Henny]

We have made a local egg business because we have been accumulating so many eggs so we posted in a local Facebook group and lots of people wanted our eggs some of them even wanted to be regular customers. After we plan when and where we are going to meet up we meet at that place and trade the eggs for the money. Plus where we live we can sell them for big bucks and we are really enjoying the experience!

 

[IamRainey]

We have a neighborhood forum in my area -- Nextdoor, if anyone knows it. Someone set up a monthly exchange. People bring whatever excess they have from their gardens -- both ornamentals and edibles. And those of us with eggs bring eggs.

We meet in a community room at the local library. Whatever people bring goes on a table. People take what interests them. Lots of the people without chickens bring their own egg cartons and a few more for anyone who needs them.

Each month there's a speaker who shares something about improving our gardens and our yields or what resources they've found locally. It's fun and easy.

 

[Pekin747]

I do a little baking cause my mother always has friend coming over or going out to her friends and she hates not bring or having something so we use a lot for that and I sell quit a few I think right now I'm getting 40 eggs between duck and hen and I also see some of my bantam eggs as hatching eggs cause and I usually get good results aswell