SC - ODD DAY

[James F. Johnson]

I'm am very grateful to everyone who offered information, suggestions, 
and speculations about egg sizes.  Today, I bought a carton of medium 
eggs (I haven't seen any small ones in my local stores), intending to 
use them sometime soon to redact some recipe or other.  I also took 
someone's advice, and began to look at paintings.  In _The Heritage of 
Spanish Cooking_, which is one of those heavily-illustrated coffeetable 
cookbooks, I found a painting by Velazquez.  "Old Woman Cooking 
Eggs" was painted circa 1618 (19 years after Granado's cookbook was 
published).  It clearly shows an egg in the old woman's hand.  I can't be 
certain, but as best I can judge the proportions, it's about the same as a 
modern medium-sized egg.  There's an image of the painting at:
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/velazque/p-velazq39.htm


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
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