There's no point apologising for the vast gap in blogging....let's just say I've had other commitments within my life.....
I've recently discovered that having many chickens, you often have a surplus of eggs.... (Although this didn't happen overnight, as most of them were hatched by myself)
I also know that when you rely on those eggs, your guaranteed to have your girls not lay as well that day. This especially applies during winter when chickens hardly lay or shut down egg supply completely. This is where my Winter Egg supply comes in.......
Yep, you guessed it...
I'm dehydrating my surplus eggs for winter stock. Why not!
All you do is blend...pour...dry...crumbled and store.....
It's that easy!
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| Dehydrated Egg |
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| Dehydrated Egg ready to crumble or blitz |
I will have a stock of my own eggs all throughout winter.
If you're wondering how to use this egg powder...It's just as simple....
For every egg needed use 1 tablespoon of powder to 2 tablespoons of water. Mix thoroughly into a bowl...and allow to sit for a few minutes to reconstitute.
Then use as you would any other egg.
Here's how I used some to make scrambled eggs....and it tasted just the same.
Hints:
1. Make sure you have good plastic sheets to pour your egg onto. I'm not sure if parchment paper would be sturdy enough. My dehydrator comes with liquid trays which I also use to make fruit leather.
2. Make sure you blend your eggs well. Preferably with an electric mixer of some sort.
3. Take the mix TO THE dehydrator trays... THEN pour it on the trays...(spoken from experience). Don't try to move the trays or the dehydrator once you have poured....It just makes an awfully huge mess.
4. Ignore the oily feeling of the egg powder once it's dried...although it looks and is really dry...it feels really oily...and that's normal.
5. Once the dried egg is blitzed into a (large grained) powder.... allow to cool in a large bowl before decanting into your storage container. (Blitzing can generate heat that will make your powder sweat in an airtight glass jar...which will compromise and probably waste all your hard work).
6. Reconstituted egg can be mixed quicker in a blender....but just sitting it on the bench for a few minutes for a couple of eggs is fine.
Do you have surplus eggs AND a dehydrator?
What will you be doing with your extra eggs next time?
