SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #360

[Maddie Teller-Kook]

I have seen quail eggs for sail in Asian grocery stores.  You might try
there if you have one where you live.

meadhbh



Ron and Laurene Wells wrote:

>    Someone asked "where do you get quail eggs?" and I never saw a response
> to that.  The only way I know to get quails eggs (other than paying a very
> high price for them in a specialty shop - IF you can find them!) is to raise
> Coturnix Quail (specially adapted to living in captivity) and collect the
> eggs yourself.  I had a cockerel and 3 hens once-upon-a-time, and kept them
> in a bird cage in the kitchen.  The males can be QUITE loud!  And the shells
> on those itty bitty eggs are the thickest and toughest things to get off I
> ever saw!  You have to REALLY WANT quail's eggs to go through that much effort.
>    An alternative I might suggest would be Bantam Chicken eggs, which are
> noticeably smaller than Standard chicken eggs, though obviously larger than
> quails eggs.  And they are easier to peel/open.  You can even raise
> Auracauna Bantams (or standards, whichever) and get pre-colored eggs -
> Auracauna chickens are from South America (nope, not period for the SCA I
> guess) and they lay green and blue shelled eggs, as opposed to white or
> brown shelled eggs of other breeds.
>    To be honest, when I owned the quail, I didn't realize what a delicacy
> the eggs were, and found them to be more of a bother than an asset.  I just
> thought the birds were cute.
> -Laurene
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