Don't be afraid of the Souffle!
We have four hens in full production and for just two of us, that's a lot of eggs! In the UK I had nine hens - mostly ex battery so we didn''t get 9 eggs a day but quite often we got five or six. They soon mount up, so what do you do with all those eggs?
In the UK I still had grown up children living at home so cakes and biscuits and puddings were a daily affair. Here, it is just hubby and I and although we could easily down a syrup sponge pudding and custard on a daily basis I don't think it would be good for the waistline.
So... recipes that use loads of eggs. If you google just that you get quite a few good sites but it is just as easy to scan your own cookery book at home and you will almost definitely come up with a souffle among other eggy treats. The first time I made a souffle it was simply to disprove (or otherwise) the hype about how hard it was to make one. How if you accidentaly knocked the oven door it would collapse and the instant you brought it ou…
In the UK I still had grown up children living at home so cakes and biscuits and puddings were a daily affair. Here, it is just hubby and I and although we could easily down a syrup sponge pudding and custard on a daily basis I don't think it would be good for the waistline.
So... recipes that use loads of eggs. If you google just that you get quite a few good sites but it is just as easy to scan your own cookery book at home and you will almost definitely come up with a souffle among other eggy treats. The first time I made a souffle it was simply to disprove (or otherwise) the hype about how hard it was to make one. How if you accidentaly knocked the oven door it would collapse and the instant you brought it ou…