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Manna of Preserving Eggs Perfectly Fresh for Twelve Months

This recipe uses lime water, which may not be safe for all preservation methods.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and lime are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 34% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,658 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Manna of Preserving Eggs Perfectly Fresh for Twelve Months

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare small casks, like oyster barrels.

  2. Fill the casks with fresh laid eggs.

  3. Pour cold thick lime water into each cask to fill all void spaces and cover the eggs.

  4. Lightly place the head of the cask back on.

  5. Occasionally add a little common water to prevent the lime from hardening.

  6. Keep the casks away from heat and frost.

  7. When using the eggs, wash them with cold water to remove adhering lime.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Egg + limetop 34% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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