SC - Egg source question

[Jenne Heise]

> From: "Jenne Heise" <jenne at mail.browser.net> 
> > I've pickled chicken eggs (thanks to the person on the list who sent the
> yummy recipe),
> Can I have it too?
> 

My email shows that the Recipe came from Lady Sarah. I'll cut'n'paste it
here:


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Here's all I know about:
Golden Eggs or Sweet Pickled Eggs

apple cider vinegar - 2 parts
Dk Brown sugar - 1part
water - 2 parts
pickling spice - 1 teaspoon per Quart of  liquid
Cinnamon Stick - 3 per Gal
Whole Cloves - 8 per Gal.
Saffron - optional - sm pinch per Qt
Hard boiled eggs, pealed

Combine and bring to gentle boil all ingredients except eggs. Remove from
heat and pour over hard boiled eggs in glass jar. Cover with cheese cloth
and refrigerate for one day. Drain and add new liquid on second day,
usually ready to serve on third day. Will keep longer with no trouble but,
will continue to get darker and stronger. This is all variable according
to your tastes. I wanted the eggs sweeter and with more cinnamon and clove
flavor than regular pickled eggs. I have had problems with the eggs
developing a dark gray color which I suspect is coming from the sulfur gas
released by the eggs. I am attempting to reduce some of that by covering
with cheese cloth instead of the jar lid. Let me know how it works for
you.  I have found it helpful to obtain a more even color to pack the jars
loosely so the eggs can move and to shake them around a couple of times a
day to change their positions and give them a chance to color evenly. The
color does not go as deeply into the whites as beet juice does but the
flavor does, especially if they sit for more than a week. Longer pickling
gives you something quite different. The eggs get very dark with a gray
cast (sulfur?) and a much more rubbery consistency and the flavor changes
and is very much less eggy. Not bad, but not sure many would find it
appealing? Hope this arrives in time to be useful and all goes well for
you, would be very interested in knowing your results!

Lady Sarah

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