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Old Fashioned On Purpose

S6 E3: Taking the Confusion Out of Egg Preservation with Carolyn Thomas

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to preserving homestead staples, there is perhaps none more confusing than the egg. If you spend time researching some of the methods used in the past, you're likely to question the validity and safety of the vast majority of them. Thankfully, today I'm joined by a true expert in egg preservation, Carolyn Thomas of Homesteading Family. In this episode we cover everything including liming, water glassing, oiling, freeze-drying, freezing, and much more. We even discuss some out of...

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0:00.0

When it comes to eggs on the homestead,

0:02.2

it tends to be either feast or fam.

0:05.9

And I know a lot of you can relate to this.

0:07.6

You either have bazillions of eggs coming in

0:10.0

and filling every container you have in your kitchen

0:12.8

and they're all over your countertops

0:14.0

and filling your fridge,

0:15.3

or you have zero eggs and you're cringing

0:18.4

as you're walking down the store aisle

0:20.5

adding cartons of eggs to your shopping cart.

0:23.1

So it tends to lead us to the next logical question.

0:27.4

How can we preserve eggs for later?

0:31.4

Now, when I started to research this topic,

0:33.0

I found that it wasn't quite as cut and dried

0:35.8

as I would like it to be.

0:37.2

And there was kind of this weird mystery

0:39.6

a little bit around different methods of egg preserving.

0:43.6

You know, if you read some old homestead literature,

0:45.8

older homestead stories,

0:47.2

you'll come across different techniques

0:49.2

that our ancestors would have used

0:51.0

are our great-grandparents.

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