The Poultry Keeper

Lisa · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: what to do with goose eggs?

Got a phone call from my OH today: "go to Newport Pagnell, its got a farmer's market on today and the guys at work say its great!"

So a little while later I come home with (among other things Rolling Eyes

) 2 fine looking goose eggs.

They're huge!! Never had goose eggs before. What is best to do to make the best of them? Cooking hints, tips and recommendations please!

fairislefaerie · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 542

Scrambled ! Instant dinner

Angela

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: norfolk

Make the most enormous and gorgeous victoria sponge cake (or several smaller ones). They taste fabulous and are a vivid yellow.

Kate

Lisa · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

Don't need them for dinner tonight - just finished the steak, guiness and stilton pie I also bought. Yum!! Very Happy

Though they're certainly big enough for dinner sized portions Cool

And I imagine something simple like scrambled would show off their flavour nicely compared to hens eggs too.

Cakes also sounds good Twisted Evil

Perhaps I should have bought more Laughing

Does anyone else buy goose eggs? I thought they were rather expensive (£1.50 each Confused

) but having never seen them for sale anywhere else ever I wasn't about to quibble on the price.

Oh decisions, decisions... okay, I'll scramble one, and make a cake with the other Very Happy

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2205 Location: North Cornwall

They do make lovely sponge cakes Very Happy

What about making 1 big cake and 1 big scotch egg that you can all have a slice of Very Happy

You can also blow the one used for the cake and decorate the shell. Just make a hole with a needle top and bottom, push something long enough inside to break the yolk and puff hard into the top hole.

Nutterly_Uts · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

I second (third!) the cake suggestions. Makes lot and lots of scrumptious fairy cakes that are yummier then normal Smile

mojo · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject:

use them wherever you use chicken eggs with spectacular results.............me i love them boiled with marmite soldiers but am older than you

Brittany Chick · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 231 Location: Brittany

We bought goslings last week and hope to have eggs for eating, birds for the table (well, not for my table!!) and breed from them.... but I feel a little queezy about eating the eggs. I think I'll have the same problems with duck eggs too. Do they taste very different from hen eggs?

Nutterly_Uts · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject:

I can't comment when used in place of hen's eggs in other places, but in cakes they taste divine Smile

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: norfolk

Brittany Chick, they don't taste any different, but they have a different "viscosity" when raw. The whites are thicker but as an omelette or as scrambled eggs you wouldn't know it from hens' eggs.

Kate

Brittany Chick · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 231 Location: Brittany

I'll give them a go Kate - I just try not to think too hard about what an egg is, where it came from and what it could become when I eat them....

NannyP · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject:

I cannot remember whether I've had goose eggs, but have definitely had duck eggs. The white has a different texture for me, I had some at Mojo's the first time we visited, they were hard boiled and I didn't like them as much as hens eggs.

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: norfolk

I'm with you there NannyP. I used to be given Muscovy duck eggs as a child and it really put me off them - as boiled eggs, but that's why I suggested scrambled or omelette. It becomes much more amorphous and like any hen egg like that.

mcleod-girls · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

we love duck and goose eggs, fried in a little olive oil, yummy! however, I didn't think you could bake with them, certainly not yorkshire puddings anyway? am I wrong there? Confused

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2205 Location: North Cornwall

I use duck and goose eggs for anything when i have them. They make lovely custard and ice cream, and the best sponge cakes. Goose eggs make wonderful creamy scramble eggs. Why do you think they wouldn't do for yorkshires mcleod- girls?