To Keep Eggs Fresh
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the pickle
Mix the water with the coarse sea salt and unslaked lime.
Boil the mixture to create a pickle.
Allow the pickle to cool before adding the eggs.
Preserve the eggs
Use only fresh, newly laid eggs and ensure they are completely covered with the lime water.
Store the eggs in a cool place.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Unslacked lime
- Makes the brine strongly alkaline, which helps preserve the eggs.
- Coarse sea salt
- Seasons the brine and adds to its preserving effect.
- Eggs (in the method)
- The food being preserved, kept fully submerged in the brine.
The step that matters
Let the pickle cool before adding the eggs. Hot liquid can crack shells and warm the eggs. Letting the pickle cool first protects the eggs before they go into the brine.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
You might also like
Green Corn Pudding64 recipes
Cornmeal mush12 recipesThe free Flavor Lab newsletter: one surprising pairing a week and the molecular reason it works, in 60 seconds. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Prefer an account? Create a free account to save pairings and unlock the full chemistry.