To Preserve Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Make the brine
Pour the spring water into a stone jar.
Add the lime and coarse sea salt to the water.
Let the mixture stand for three days, stirring it each day.
Preserve the eggs
After three days, pour off the liquid and place your eggs in the jar.
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
- Lime
- Raises the alkalinity of the liquid, which slowly sets the egg white and yolk during preserving.
- Coarse sea salt
- Draws moisture out of the eggs and helps preserve them while the lime works.
- Eggs (in the method)
- Provide the protein that the alkaline brine gradually transforms during preserving.
The step that matters
Letting the mixture stand and stirring each day. The lime and salt need time to dissolve and fully mix into the water. Daily stirring keeps the solution evenly mixed so the eggs preserve consistently rather than unevenly.
“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.
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