SC - Size of Eggs

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on 11 Nov 99,, that Elysant at aol.com wrote:

> Ras then wrote 
> 
> >Small eggs available in any grocery store would be the equivalent in size
> >to the majority of medieval eggs.
> 
> I have to share in support of this that usually, when I've used
> traditional Welsh recipes (including Welshcakes) that have eggs as an
> ingredient, if I don't use medium or small eggs, then the number of eggs
> called for in the recipe gives me too much egg quantity for the amounts of
> the other ingredients in the dish.  

Thank you both for this suggestion.  I guess it was just too firmly 
engrained in my mind that large eggs are what one bakes with.  I'll have 
to look for small eggs the next time I'm at the market.
 
> Elysant  


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