SC - ale wives

[Ian Gourdon]

ÚlfR wrote:
>A quick look revealed
>no indications of egg sizes, but he did find a note that bones from
>chickens from when they first entered Sweden (a couple of centuries BC)
>indicated that they were slightly smaller than moderns dwarf (bantam?)
>chickens.


I´ve been trying out several old cookie recipes over the weekend, all from
cookbooks printed 1906 or earlier, both Icelandic and foreign, and the only
recipe which worked as it was supposed to, without added flour, was a recipe
where you were supposed to weigh the eggs and use as much flour as they
weighed. The other cookies were quite good  too but I had to add as much as
25-30% extra flour or potato flour to be able to roll out the dough or form
it as the recipe said. To me this indicates that the eggs used in these 18th
and 19th century recipes were much smaller than medium sized eggs are these
days.

Nanna

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