What to make with duck eggs?

littlereddevil

I think just young ducks but the ones I got this week are large

BWZN93

Curry_Queen wrote:

Hear Hear!!! I hate snotty eggs too _pale_

Mine have to be solid and fried on both sides if I'm having fried eggs

Another one for the solid yolk club - its gotta be fully cooked or im _pale_. I prefer scrambled too - no one ever serves them undercooked!

Jo xx

BWZN93

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

These look REALLY erm........moorish too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

"Century egg without shell. Note the snow-flake pattern at the tip of the egg."

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Thats one of the worst things I could ever possibly imagine eating!

HOLsale

jw1096 wrote:

"Century egg without shell. Note the snow-flake pattern at the tip of the egg."

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Thats one of the worst things I could ever possibly imagine eating!

i rather thought it looked like it should be coming up, not going down :eek: :rotfl:

Lulubells

Hi,

I have just been given half a dozen ducks eggs - I plan on baking a cake with them - one question - as they are so much bigger do you have to take that into consideration? or just replace I hen's egg for 1 duck egg ?

Sorry if this is a dim question !

TIA

LLB

MikeAndHisLovelyPlant

It's official*:
Duck eggs are tastier than chicken eggs.

And if anyone disagrees then I'll meet them round the back of the bike sheds and give them a Chinese burn.

Mike

*when I say official, I mean IMHO

kittiwoz

I've had duck eggs a few times. They were bigger than hen's eggs. I had them scrambled and they had a lovely buttery taste. I can't understand how anyone can not like soft yolks. They're so lovely and creamy. I have a housemate who always cooks his scrambled eggs til they're a solid rubbery block. I can hardly bear to look since I consider creamy scrambley eggs to be a real treat.

If you're cooking with them you would have to take acount of them being bigger. I'd guess 1 duck egg = 1 1/2 hens' eggs would probably be a reasonable substitution. Alternately if you are making a pound cake you could crack them and weigh them or put them in a cup and go by volume. You would want the same amount of egg as sugar and butter.

Queenie

Lulubells wrote:

Hi,

I have just been given half a dozen ducks eggs - I plan on baking a cake with them - one question - as they are so much bigger do you have to take that into consideration? or just replace I hen's egg for 1 duck egg ?

Sorry if this is a dim question !

TIA

LLB

Very easy to remember: Victoria Sponge made with duck egg/s

Weigh the egg/s (no need to shell) then use equal weight of flour, sugar and margarine/butter.
Couldn't be simpler and the cakes come out D-LISH! :drool:

Enjoy

recovering_spendaholic

I have noticed that a number of you use duck eggs in baking and also for eating and I would like to try them, but I am put off because when I was at school (a loooong time ago in the 1970's) our Domestic Science teacher told a girl who brought duck eggs in one day when we were making cakes that they were very dangerous and you could become very ill from using them in cakes as the shells had bacteria on them, which wasn't killed by baking. She made such a fuss about it that it scared me enough never to eat them, but some people on the OS weight loss thread say they are really delicious and don't seem to be getting any dreadful diseases from eating them, so can anyone tell me if they are definitely safe to eat?

arkonite_babe

Definitely safe to eat My youngest loves them and will quite happily demolish 2 duck eggs and soldiers in one sitting with no side effects. If using for baking allow 1 duck egg per 2 hen eggs in your recipe.

HTH