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BOIL them. A hard boiled egg is an eggscellent snack! 6-7 grams of protein and packed with nutrition.
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2 cups organic, unsalted butter, room temperature
1 lb sifted cake flour (about 4 ½ cups)
10 eggs, separated
1 lb sugar (2 cups)
2 tsp vanilla
Cream butter with sugar until fluffy and no longer gritty. Set aside.
Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored. Add to creamed mixture. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Fold in flour and beat well. Pour into two greased loaf pans and bake at 325 for 1-¼ hours.
Beat egg whites and vanilla until stiff. Put in separate bowl. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy and no longer gritty. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks and add that back into the creamed mixture. Fold in egg whites. Fold in flour. Mixture will be very thick. Pour or spoon into 2 greased loaf pans and bake at 325 for 1-¼ hours.
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Dream Cake (no pics)
10 eggs, separated
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
pinch salt
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla
1 c sugar
3/4 c cake flour
Beat egg whites until frothy. Add cream of tartar and beat to stiff peaks. Set aside.
Beat yolks and salt until thick and lemon colored. Add lemon and vanilla, beat in sugar gradually, beat until the yolks hold a soft peak.
56 Comments
I sell my extras for $1 a dozen. I do not want to make profit, I am just happy to have others enjoy free range eggs from happy birds.
the Food Bank is another good idea, we dont have one nearby though.
I also bake extra muffins, and freeze them for later use. Since it’s only two of us, I always freeze muffins anyway, so that we don’t have to rush through a batch (and screw up our blood sugar in the process!). I just bake more when eggs are plentiful.
I make a curry pickled egg that is a party favorite. I just use 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/2 cup water, some curry (I use a graham marsala +hot curry) put it a wide-mouthed jar and add spices, vinegar and sugar and then top off with water. In a week the eggs have absorbed the curry and are FANTASTIC. I take a few add some mayonnaise mix it together; garnish it with onion chives and put it in the center of a dip/chip plate and put crackers around It. It also makes a great sandwich and snack!
your local food pantry or shelter could probably use some extra eggs. we give our extra 4 – 5 dozen/week to our neighbors at our church, many of who are on a fixed income and/or can’t afford much protein weekly. our farm is a blessing to us, and we try to further that blessing by passing on God’s great eggs!
Hi, when I have extra eggs I make a batch of tapioca and or a batch of custard with nutmeg sprinkled on top. They don’t use a lot of eggs but they make a nice dessert for the family.
I have also taken my smaller plastic freezer canning jars and add beaten eggs to them so when I need 3 eggs for cake making during the winter I have a defrosted batch ready to go.
Once all the people have been fed, and as others have noted dogs and hens, boiled eggs with shell can be fed to the pigs. For some reason the protein is increased when boiled and the pigs love them.
Hi. Protein does not increase. It is a percentage thing. The less water, the higher the percentage of all the other individual nutrients because the water is such a large percentage of an uncooked egg.
This is also the case with dried vegetables, fruits, leaves, or meats.
It makes a difference if there is a concern about an animal getting enough nutrients because the water content can add to the feeling of fullness, so the animal may stop eating before getting all the required nutrients.
Fun post to read! To the person unsure about feeding a whole raw egg to your pet dog, we’ve done it for years without issue. Our lab loves the shell too. Of course there is Calcium in the shell which dogs also need. We feed our 40 hens organic feed (but not certified organic) and rotate them on a pasture that we are increasingly making more healthy, diverse and toward being organic. We have several customers who are recovering from various diseases who have decided to eat better and swear by our free range eggs. One customer even eats 2 of our eggs raw every day as in an egg-nog type drink! She’s the most vibrant 75 year old I’ve ever met! 🙂 You can use up a lot of eggs by taking egg-nog to parties and get-togethers. People will ask for it again and again!
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The best way to get eggs to peel is to let them sit in the fridge for a couple weeks. “Old” eggs peel much easier than newly laid eggs. Also, if you put eggs in a air tight container, and put them in the fridge, they will keep for at least six months (according to research done by Mother Earth News :D), so when the chickens are laying, you can save up for when laying slacks off.
I’m looking for a recipe that my grandmother used to make with eggs – it was baked and the eggs were whole inside. Sounds strange but if any readers know of this recipe please email directions to alenejones09@gmail.com Thank you!!!
I sell extra eggs to family and friends only. I also donate some to needy folks in my church. I have a jar where I put the money I get on just eggs. I want to see how long it takes me to make up the cost of the feed the girls get.
We live in a small rural town, and the Food Bank is handled through a Senior Center and one of the churches… took a bit of calling around, but we found it. I have enough customers for my 13 hens, but the lady that I work for has 100+ chickens and sells her eggs by the roadside and from inside the house in the winter… in the winter not as many people buy eggs, so we either sell them to one of the two local co-ops (who both need eggs in the cold weather, but not the warm, so that works out perfectly) (and they pay us the same price that we charge roadside) or we donate them to one of the groups that staff the food shelf. The ladies at the food shelf not only want to come pick up the eggs, they always ask if they can go out and collect the eggs that day, too! We have heard from many people how happy they were to get lovely, pasture fed eggs when they needed good food, especially the seniors – many of whom remember fresh eggs from their childhood 🙂 and especially in the winter, what a great source of minerals, protein and nutrient-dense food! So even if you think there isn’t a Food Shelf in your tiny rural town, call to any senior groups or churches and ask around – you may be surprised.
Moondog, just use a sewing pin to put a hole in the large end of the egg before cooking. Then run the eggs under cool water.
Pam, what do you do with your frozen eggs? I have frozen cooked eggs in burritos, but I’ve never done it as suggested here because I’ve heard they are rubbery afterward. Thoughts?
I have an amazing custard recipe. If you’re interested, I cam email it to you. I’ve tried several and this is the winner, hands down. Creamy and smooth, like the filling in an eclair. Can be used in a pie or cooked along in a glass container. Can’t wait to try the pound cake recipe!
Cinder, if you are willing to still share this recipe after so long, I would love to have it. My email is saylorsiam @Yahoo.com. Thanks
Great ideas!
A health-food store or co-op would probably take the extras to sell. I buy mine from a local antiques/misc emporium.
If a Food Bank is not near to you, call them – they probably would pick them up.
You could take them to a shelter.
Moondog: Bring your water to a slow boil, poke a small hole in the end of each egg (I use the tip of my paring knife) and place them gently in the pan. Cook for 12 mins (more for lg eggs). Then drain the pot, crack the eggs slightly and drop them into cold/ice water. This is from Jacques Pepin. The little bit of water that gets into the egg actually seems to help cook them and displaces air so they don’t float. Also, that last bit about cracking slightly and putting in cold water keeps them from getting a green ring around the yolk and eliminates that sulphur smell,
I’m looking for a customer who wants to but a dozen or so extra eggs every week. Any extras, after family & friends, go to my local fire department & my priests’ rectory.
Great ideas! I have a gluten intolerance, and I’ve noticed that most of the recipes with coconut flour use at least three eggs, or in the following recipe for vanilla cupcakes, six:
http://www.elanaspantry.com/vanilla-cupcakes-with-chocolate-frosting/
Also maybe you could reconsider poached eggs. I use a silicone “boat” and poach eggs by floating these “egg boats” in a large pot with boiling water. They produce an excellent egg that you can eat right from the little bowl, and they are not watery like most poached eggs and don’t require fussing with a hot egg shell. Letting them boil a bit longer produces a result in between soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs.
http://www.amazon.com/Fusionbrands-Poach-Pods-Set-Green/dp/B000P6FD3I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297569250&sr=8-1
A good use for the egg yolks leftover from Angel Food cake is “EGG YOLK SPONGE CAKE”. Here’s a link to one recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,166,151186-246205,00.html
GREAT information. I often sell my eggs, but had to turn away customers because of the winter slow down. Now, they are laying like crazy, and I need to figure out what to do with all the extras!!
If you have more eggs than you can use, look into giving some to your local food bank… I’m sure they can put them to good use!
Can you donate some to the food bank?
This is great! I think I have forgotten to tell you that I grew up eating scrambled egg noodles. I thought it was because we were poor, which we were, but my kids LOVE this dish. Boil egg noodles. Then start scrambling eggs however you like to. You can use 3, 5 or 10 eggs depending on how much you want to make. (I have never been able to make a small batch. of scrambled egg noodles.) When you pore the mixture into the skillet, plop the cooked egg noodles into the skillet and merely fold the eggs around, over, around the noodles while they cook. If momma got paid that week, we had sausage or bacon, too. I garnish with salt, pepper, and parsley. Easy, peasy. My college roommates loved it, too, and had no idea it was what poor people eat. Now it’s what people with too many eggs eat.
I sell my extras for $1 a dozen. I do not want to make profit, I am just happy to have others enjoy free range eggs from happy birds.
the Food Bank is another good idea, we dont have one nearby though.
We donate eggs. The local food pantry and the people who go there, who rarely get fresh anything, are absolutely thrilled when we show up with gorgeous, bright-yolked, fresh eggs. We have far too many birds for our needs, so we share them with our kids, and then we donate what we can’t use. We have also been known to barter them for chicken feed since the lady who owns the feed store we patronize doesn’t have chickens but has 6 kids who detest store-bought eggs. We use a 20% protein feed, which costs more than the generic 16% feed – mostly we do this because with lower protein feed we noticed that there was significant feather-plucking behavior going on. Increasing the feed to 20% protein, adding DE (diatomaceous earth) the the feed, and free-feeding oyster shell bits all contribute to mid-winter-laying hens when nobody else around here has hens popping out 15-16 a day for 17 birds!!
Awesome ideas folks. Thanks so much. Looking forward to putting these to work and I know my friends and neighbors will be delighted as well.
Pam
Look up “forgotten cookies” – you can use up the excess DAILY, gift them to folks, and you’re done! 🙂
Egg yolks are an ingredient in tempera paints. Mix a 1/4cup of water with an egg yolk and some food coloring and you can make water soluable paints good for posters, interior signs, etc… Kids love to make their own paints and then paint pictures with them too, and best of all it cleans up easy and is biodegradable.
Coddled eggs are to die for. These use a ceramic cup with a lid. The old English Manor Houses used them to cook for quest and keep the eggs warm. I use mine, butter to coat the inside, 2 eggs and added stuff. Sometimes cheese, etc. Cooked in a pan with cool water covering the lid, 10 min usually will get them to soft. Yummy. And they stay hot until eaten.
Candy H
Oh Patty! 50 eggs a day now, with the anticipation of 90 a day by this summer?!? Put a sign up in front of your place. At least that way you can recoup some of the expense of the feed!
Sure, I occasionally give a dozen eggs to a friend here or there. But my friends also don’t expect to get something that good for nothing all the time. They offer to pay me for them, and are always grateful to get them, rather than the washed out, nutrient deficient ones from the store.
Just don’t cut yourself short, girl! You have a value-added commodity there!
Agreed. My neighbors and co workers pay me some $ bring me back the egg carton and I’ve recooped the feed bill. They get some good eggs too.
We donate to local food banks and churches. They can always use the eggs for feeding the masses. Homeless shelters are happy to take them too and if they are tax-exempt places, you can get a tax write off just like from the Goodwill etc.
I am really interested in how to use up extra eggs. You see.. those cute little chicks.. the ones I got last year and some for the grandkids that couldnt take theirs home..well.. lets just say right now I am getting 50 eggs a day. I give away to friends and neighbors but still have alot left. I will have around 90 laying come summer.. so please lots of ways to use up eggs *lol*
cook them and and feed them back to the chickens- good protein for them in the winter and moulting season.
This coconut cake takes 12 eggs, and is delicious:
http://nourishedkitchen.com/coconut-flour-cake/
Meringues and custard – meringues use the whites, and custard uses the yolks.
Flan uses about 8 eggs….mmm…mmm….flan
Feed them to your dogs. Start slow at first or you might have some runny poop. You can just hand them a raw egg – shell and all.
why would you give them the shell? I would cook the egg.
This is my favorite topping on angel food cake & it uses ALL 12 YOLKS 🙂
It’s also a perfect filling for layer cakes OR used in a parfait with layers of leftover cake chunks & whipped cream… Mmmmmm
12 egg yolks
4 cups sugar
8 lemons
1 cup butter
Mix egg yolks with sugar, grated rinds from 4 lemons, and juice from lemons and cook in a double boiler, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves. Add butter and continue cooking,stirring constantly, for 15 minutes or until topping is smooth and thick. LEMONY-DELICIOUS!!
I have heard of the pickled eggs with regular eggs as well. You can them and then can cut them up for salads any time of the year. I want to try it cause it sounded so good. You can add a little tumeric to the pickling juice to give the eggs a yellowish/orange tint. Eggs are easier to peel if you let them sit in the fridge for a week or two. The fresher they are the harder they are to peel when hard boiled.
Moondog, I steam my eggs rather than boiling, they seem to peel much easier that way. I use a metal colander(sp) and the stockpot cover. I steam for the same amount of time that it would take to boil. David
My friends and I hike on the weekends and find that eating an organic hard boiled egg early in the hike gives us the added protein, vitamins A, D, B12, B2, niacin, and folate that really keeps us going! Thanks for the great post.
Any suggestions for peeling the eggs after boiling? I’ve tried the method from the boiling pot straight to ice water, but nothing seems to help.
Steam them
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I steam mine also then put cold water and ice cubes on them to cool and I don’t get green around the yolks
I keep eggs refrigerated until ready to hard boil. I poke a hole in the wide end of each egg with a push pin. Then bring water to a boil and add a BIG SPLASH of vegetable oil. Place the eggs in the water, turn off the heat and cover. Let cook for 17 minutes. Pour off hot water and cover with ice. Works every time. Hard boiled eggs are good for dogs. I have 3 dogs and each gets a hard boiled egg in their dinner each night.
Great post. I especially like the Old Fashioned Pound cake recipe. But, nothing about pickled eggs? We have 8 Bantams that give us perfect tiny eggs so I have taken my favorite dill pickle recipe and use the little eggs for pickling, they make a great bite sized snack. I can usually get 18-20 eggs in a quart sized canning jar and make a couple jars every three weeks or so with the extra bantam eggs.
Don’t forget egg facials.
Bread pudding!!! The Cook’s Illustrated recipe (Mar/Apr2010) is absolutely fantastic. It uses 9 egg yolks. Then you could make an Angel Food cake and would only have to worry about 3 yolks. Cook those last 3 and feed them to your chickens! Mine love eggs and they’re a good source of protein.
Lots of great ideas!
Great suggestion Heidi, I will look into it! Your welcome Rebecca. Pam
Great post! I never thought of freezing eggs-thanks for including the link.
Making fresh pasta is a good way to use up eggs. You can even dry it for another day.