An Egg as big as twenty.

[swimboy]

(from The Art of Cookery by Richard Briggs, Boston: For W. Spotswood, 1798)

Take twenty eggs, feparate the yolks from the whites, and ftrain them both through a fieve; tie the yolks in a bladder as round as a ball, and boil them hard; put this ball into another bladder; put in the whites, tie them up ovel, boil them half an hour, and then throw them into cold water. When you have a grand fallad, cut them into quarters, and put round it. You may boil five or fix in the fame manner, or any quantity you pleafe, to put in the middle of any ragou or fricaffee of eggs.









(I really would have made this any number of times before now, if I could just get my hands on those bladders! I think it would be visually arresting and fun. For instance, you could have them at a kid's birthday party and tell them it was a dinosaur egg. Any suggestions on what to use for the bladders?)

[mike_c]

1. plastic bags would work-- but the shape would be funny...

...unless you could find round ones.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Have you checked e-bay?

You might be able to get some bladders on the cheap. : :P

[grasswire]

3. a rubber balloon? (eom)

[swimboy]

4. That might work for the yolks

but then you need to get the yolk-ball through the neck of whatever it is you're boiling the whites in. I'm also unclear on the actual volume/size we are talking about when you start consolidating unshelled raw eggs constituents.

[spindrifter]

5. What about sausage casings?

[Dora]

6. That was my thought.

I'd love to see somebody attempt this.

[Karenca]

7. ftrain them through a sieve-

boil five or fix in the fame manner, or any quantity you pleafe."

Funday Breakfaft----
I'll have frambled eggf
pluf toaft pluf ftrawberry fider.

Coffee, fome cream, no fugar.

What'f up with the F'f
?

[mike_c]

8. the answer is not a short one, but here it is.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

The long, medial or descending s (ſ) is a form of the minuscule letter s formerly used where s occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word, for example ſinfulneſs ("sinfulness"). The modern letterform was called the terminal or short s.

much more @ link

[Karenca]

9. Thankf fo much!

Fo now I underftand!!:toast:

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Fo, fwimboy. When do we get the invitationf

for the eighteen century home cooking chez fwimboy?
:9

[politicat]

11. I'd use....

new, washed and dried condoms. I'd wash them well with soap and water until they were squeaky clean, then let them dry. I'd probably use a standard, latex one for the whites (since they stretch a bit better) and an Avanti polyurethane one for the yolks.

Stretch the mouth of the condom over a small, somewhat widemouthed bottle or jar and pour the eggs in that way, then pull them out, tie them off and boil. Ovbiously, remove the condom before serving and DON'T TELL anyone squeamish or childish what you used.

[swimboy]

12. Brilliant!

If anybody tries this before I get to it, please let me know how it went. When I do get to it, I will let you know if it is a success, or back to the drawing board.