SC - Re: Illusion Foods Challenge

[Elise Fleming]

Julleran wrote:

>Okay. I saw this recipe in one of the new cookbooks I got this summer 
>and I was thinking about trying it. But how to you get enough egg 
>shells without killing yourself? I once tried blowing eggs out of 
>shells and it took me hours to do a half dozen and I almost died from
>hyper-ventilation! :-)

Some of us are bigger bags of wind than others, Julleran!  :^  Bigger 
holes would help.  I've seen people do them with holes the size of a 
dime, though smaller holes are so much nicer.

> The recipe says patch the holes with flour and water paste before 
>baking, so I can't imagine that you could make the holes all that big. 
>Also, how do you then fill them up with custard? A piping bag with a 
>very small tip, maybe?

Dime-sized holes could be covered.  Piping bag sounds like a good 
suggestion.  I saw a late-period or mid-1600s reference to paper tube 
with a hole in one end.  Of course, I have no idea now where I saw it.

Alys Katharine


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