[Sca-cooks] Is it an Egg or a Goose

[Stefan li Rous]

Sharon mentioned:
> If you want to know if an egg is still an egg without breaking the 
> shell,
> you can hold it up to a light, called candling it.  Here's a website 
> that
> shows some of the different things you might see.
> http://www.homestead.com/shilala/candling.html
Interesting. Now that you mention it, I think I've heard the term 
before but never knew the details. Does anyone have any evidence of 
whether this technique is period or not? It is certainly within 
medieval technology.

Exploding eggs? Eeewww! Yuck.

Stefan
(not good ammo for feast catapults...:-) )
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