What do you cook when you've got too many eggs?

[Sue]

Hi
Wondered if anyone had well-liked recipes that use lots of eggs at a time.

My favourite ways of using lots at a time are 12 egg Pound Cake and 8 egg icecream.

Trouble is I get three cakes and 20 portions of icecream out of the recipes so while I eat my way through that lot the egg backlog builds back up again but it does clear the decks to get through 20 eggs in one day!

Sue

[Nicos]

Ah well- you see peeps here share produce- so if I have too many eggs I'll giv them to friends and neighbours- to be given a bucket of mussels/jam /nuts/cake/fruit/wood/calvados/cider/cream
Beats constipation!!!!!

otherwise- I love scrambled egg

[SarzWix]

Pavlova! Make 2 and then you can use the yolks to make a lemony sort of custard to sandwich them together... Mmmmmmm
Trouble is, I have no hens, so I have to buy the eggs if I want to make that.

[MaureenHall]

I make custards or ice cream with the yolks and marshmallows or meringues with the whites. Though I did use at least a dozen at the weekend for making cakes for a bake sale

[RichmondHens]

Lots of cakes and quiches, all of which can be frozen/donated to school cake stalls etc.

Apparently you can freeze eggs, if you break them, beat them up till thoroughly mixed and then freeze in ice cube trays or similar. I have never tried this but apparently works fine.

Other than that, when I have loads and loads, I just push sales a bit more.

[Glutton4...]

Even with 20 hens (tho not all laying I suspect as I struggle to get 10 a day ) I don't have the problem of an egg glut - my DH sells them at work for @ 6 for £1 and I can't keep up with demand!

When I went on the Atkins diet a few years ago I discovered Eggs Florentine - it is now my favourite dish, and I can eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. As a side dish, with Pasta or on a Pizza.

Occasionally, if she has a glut, my Mum bakes an Egg Custard (flavoured with Baileys - very yummy) or just a batch of Yorkie Puds to put in the freezer to save time on other occasions.

If you get really stuck, just bake a batch of Cheese Scones and Madeira Cakes, let me know and I'll PM you my address!!!!

[Bramble-Poultry]

we dont get any eggs i end up selling most of them at work. if we eat 6 a week between us we are lucky!

still, once the turkeys are gone i will have a nice big run for more ex-batts!!!

[Bramble-Poultry]

Julesapple makes lemon curd and fruit curds - you will have to ask her to share her recipes

[Snadger]

we dont get any eggs i end up selling most of them at work. if we eat 6 a week between us we are lucky!

still, once the turkeys are gone i will have a nice big run for more ex-batts!!!

Likewise..........I don't usually get time to get them in my honesty box before there is a queue for them.
I used to keep my young Light Sussex eggs for myself because they weren't much bigger than a banty's and were lush. Now she's broody and sitting on eggs.
I usually only get the ones with cracked shells, thin shells, whirlies on end etc as I can't sell em!

[di]

Cakes,buns and more cakes!!!
Also we have egg fried rice at least once a week...tarted up with lil bits of this & that & whatever else is kicking around the kitchen.
But nothing beats a late night snack of runny fried egg on toast!

[RedThorn]

creme brules!(sp???)

[Sue]

Redthorn
I stopped making creme brulee, couldn't stop at eating one, and those others would call from the fridge and I had to go and pig out on them all.
So no more creme brulee. I can do the cakes and icecream as they're in the freezer and therefore solid lumps. Temptation can then be overruled.
I think I'll do a batch of courgette quiches. The courgettes seem to have gone into overdrive the past two weeks. Oh and courgette loaf, that uses three and that's excellent with soup.

And come winter I shall be back on poached eggs on toast for supper when I come back from the allotment (after I've had a tot of blackberry gin).
I could give/sell more but being out of work and broke it makes more sense to use them as a direct food source to save money on buying something else to eat.

Sue

[Alison]

Don't have chooks and one of the things that puts me off is the fact that I'd have more eggs than I could cope with. I probably only eat about one a week so we end up using up spares to stop them going off, if I've over bought then the favourite way is a big thick spanish omlette with potatoes and onions in it. Really nice and tasty and takes about 5 eggs between us.

[walldanzig]

Carrot cake Carrot cake recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food lovely stuff

uses 4 eggs

[LilyRose]

Egg custard takes 4, custard sauce, mousse, cakes, meringues, muffins...