SC - Egg Yolks

[Cindy]

>At 12:07 AM -0700 11/11/99, Victoria Wilson wrote:
>
>> > I know that HG Cariadoc in the Miscellany estimates that medieval eggs
>> > were about half the size of modern large eggs.  Does the same
>> > conversion apply to yolks?
>
>As I hope I made clear in the _Miscellany_, that is merely a guess,
>nothing more. I don't have the evidence to back it up--and hope
>someone else will learn more.

Hello!  While I don't have the answer to that question, I do recall that Le
Menagier has a recipe for Frumenty that makes 10 bowls.  His proportions
call for one pound of hulled wheat, to "1 sester [8 pints] of milk", and a
hundred egg yolks.

HTH,

Cindy


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