SC - OT-Lady in Waiting

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

- -Poster Elysant <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>

With all of this talk on chickens and eggs, I wonder what breeds of chickens they 
had in the Middle Ages (ancestors of RI Reds?, Leghorns perhaps?)?  Also, I 
wonder if it states whether eggs with brown or white (or other colour) shells 
were used in any of the period recipes members of the list are acquainted with?  
Sorry if this has been discussed already, I have a vague recollection that bits 
of it might have been.

I also note that when I have made my Welsh Cakes recipe, I have to use medium not 
large eggs, as large throws off the balance of the rest of the ingredients.  So I 
wonder than if this has been found to happen with other recipes from period?  I'm 
taking it that eggs were probably smaller than today's large or xlarge in the 
past or am I wrong there?

Elysant
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