What is considered a large egg these days?

[mimi]

Has anyone else noticed that all the eggs in the stores appear smaller than usual.

I bought large eggs and they rattle around in the carton. They also weigh 50 gm each, much less than the usual 59 ish gms I am used to.

This makes a big difference in the balance of wet and dry ingredients when baking a cake.

I think there is a big rip off happening here!!!

I will have to go back to farm market eggs.

 

[snif]

I only eat free range eggs , love the colour and the way the yoke stands up rather than pale yellow and flat .

 

[mimi]

Ya see? they are sneaking medium eggs into the large cartons!

 

[uncleg]

Anything that hurts when you lay it.

 

[mimi]

Maybe she was just getting the large eggs all together and excluding the mediums?

I baked a cake a couple of weeks ago and it came out a tad dry, but, it shouldn't have...then I realized that if it called for 4 large eggs (all recipes are based on large eggs) and I am using medium size eggs I am losing about 36g of liquid, which, can make a big difference in a cake.

So, I was pissed off....a cake takes a lot of expensive ingredients, like butter and eggs, and ruining the cake is like flushing those items down the toilet....

Unless you can cut it up, add custard, a liberal dash of sherry, smother it with jam and whip cream and call it trifle....

 

[mimi]

Ha Ha! Can I do that?

I want to send cake to my children...and these very special peppermint cream cookies...but, my experience sending cookies is that they look like crumbs when they get there...

Maybe I should get off my ass and investigate...

Do you have any allergies?