SC - More on egg sizes
Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
Fri Nov 19 14:37:24 PST 1999
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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