We fancied poached eggs for tea yesterday and I was idly reading the egg box whilst waiting for the water to boil.....
Wow! White eggs! I haven't seen any of those in a long while......
Wow! Who knew??
I wondered about the sudden change from the usual brown eggs to white ones and whether or not it's related to the recent bird flu outbreak. Perhaps the farmer has had to replace his flock with a new breed of hens? Anyway, they had lovely golden yolks and tasted delicious...
I hope you are all keeping warm in this very cold and icy spell. It was -4C last night, obviously nowhere near as cold as in Scotland, but I was glad of my dressing gown laid over the bed and my hot water bottle to cuddle up to.
Thanks for popping in. Stay warm and safe wherever you happen to be,
Angie 💗
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Still not too cold over here in Suffolk - thank goodness
ReplyDeleteI remember brown eggs being special and all shop bought eggs being white!
ReplyDeleteIndeed they were, Kirsten, all my childhood eggs were white. That's why it was a shock to find these ones in the box. I haven't seen white eggs for years!
DeleteFreezing here in Derbyshire, have invested in windscreen covers for our cars. My Gran used to say if you had eggs and potatoes you had the makings of a few meals. Hugs Gill Xx
ReplyDeleteYour Gran was so right, Gill. Egg and chips, omelettes, jacket potatoes, scrambled eggs on toast, poached eggs on toast, boiled eggs, potato cakes with eggs....the list is endless isn't it :)
DeleteIt was always white eggs when I lived in the UK. Eggs are always brown here. We've had an egg shortage and of course the supermarkets have put the prices up!
ReplyDeleteOh isn't that typical :( Fortunately, our prices are relatively low. I got those 6 white eggs for £1.28.
DeleteI knew. :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't remember what our number was but we sold free range eggs and they were traceable to our farm. You have to register and get a number relating to your flock if you have 50 or more chickens. The inspector actually comes out to the farm, measures the hen houses and the land that the chickens have to roam over and tells you in you qualify or not. We had 50 birds and our henhouses were allowable for 48 ... luckily 10 of our chickens were bantams and they were classed as 'half-sized'. They had plenty of room in the houses, so I wasn't worried. :-)
Wow! I never knew that Sue! My white eggs were lovely too. It's nice to know that they probably came from happy hens :)
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