Donate to Remove ads

Got a credit card? use our Credit Card & Finance Calculators

Thanks to johnstevens77,Bhoddhisatva,scotia,Anonymous,Cornytiv34, for Donating to support the site

Powdered eggs

incorporating Recipes and Cooking
didds
Lemon Half
Posts: 5244
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 12:04 pm
Has thanked: 3244 times
Been thanked: 1018 times

Powdered eggs

#357969

Postby didds » November 19th, 2020, 8:36 am

I'vwe only tioday realised/learned you can still buy powdered eggs.

Does anybody here use such a thing? Who might use them - caterers maybe? People withoput a gridge - permanenet campervan dwellers?

merely intrigued as I thought they were a WW2 rationing thing that had just died out :-)

UPDATE: Ive also now learned that there is such a thing as powdered stilton cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

didds

swill453
Lemon Half
Posts: 7962
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 6:11 pm
Has thanked: 984 times
Been thanked: 3643 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#357970

Postby swill453 » November 19th, 2020, 8:42 am

I think generally we have no idea what goes into processed foods. For example, most of the eggs I see on supermarket shelves are free range, so it seems to me that consumers choose them when they have a choice.

Yet they're next to a whole aisle of cakes, where I've never seen "free range eggs" listed in the ingredients. I'd hazard a guess that the manufacturers just use what's cheapest - which may well be powdered.

Scott.

Imbiber
2 Lemon pips
Posts: 247
Joined: November 5th, 2016, 6:02 am
Has thanked: 56 times
Been thanked: 89 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#357983

Postby Imbiber » November 19th, 2020, 9:14 am

If you have ever had scrambled egg for breakfast in an hotel

https://www.brake.co.uk/dairy/eggs/valu ... egg/p/3140

James
Lemon Slice
Posts: 295
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 3:12 pm
Has thanked: 69 times
Been thanked: 111 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#358009

Postby James » November 19th, 2020, 10:02 am

As part of our Covid/Brexit/Zombie apocalypse preparations, we bought some vegan powdered egg substitute. It will survive a direct nuclear strike and seems to last forever, but is actually perfectly okay to use for baking etc. Haven't yet dared to try it for scrambled eggs, however.

johnstevens77
Lemon Slice
Posts: 440
Joined: November 9th, 2016, 6:14 pm
Has thanked: 421 times
Been thanked: 147 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#358036

Postby johnstevens77 » November 19th, 2020, 11:01 am

Imbiber wrote:If you have ever had scrambled egg for breakfast in an hotel

https://www.brake.co.uk/dairy/eggs/valu ... egg/p/3140


Your link was to liquid eggs, a very different product. Nothing wrong with liquid eggs, in fact on a much smaller scale, one could say that I use liquid egg at home when I cook off the remaining egg wash left over from baking pastry. (Even as now, it has been in the fridge 4 days).

john

kempiejon
Lemon Quarter
Posts: 3488
Joined: November 5th, 2016, 10:30 am
Has thanked: 1 time
Been thanked: 1145 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#358054

Postby kempiejon » November 19th, 2020, 11:50 am

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/281756520411532501/
We used to have long eggs at a venue I worked, came in a tube about 30cm long white on the outside, yolk in the middle and was cut into 2cm slices fried on the griddle and served in a muffin.

Rhyd6
Lemon Quarter
Posts: 1262
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 10:01 pm
Has thanked: 3475 times
Been thanked: 1103 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#358454

Postby Rhyd6 » November 20th, 2020, 2:44 pm

Oh 'eck it's a re-run of the war. I remember powdered eggs first time around and they won't be something I'll ever put on my shopping list.

R6

stewamax
Lemon Quarter
Posts: 2417
Joined: November 7th, 2016, 2:40 pm
Has thanked: 83 times
Been thanked: 782 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#359880

Postby stewamax » November 25th, 2020, 10:56 am

The 1940s full-cream Ostermilk 2 in a tall pale-dirty-blue/off-white can I was brought up on did me no (apparent) harm.
Unlike our poor bath that was regularly scrubbed by my mother with viciously-abrasive pink Chemico from a squat pink tin; the pre-WW2 bath enamel wasn't thick enough and the undercoat (or was it galvanized steel) showed through in patches. Being in a hard water area, the alternative was dried scum.

AleisterCrowley
Lemon Half
Posts: 6381
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 11:35 am
Has thanked: 1880 times
Been thanked: 2026 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#359909

Postby AleisterCrowley » November 25th, 2020, 12:17 pm

I can still remember my late dad's stories about powdered egg during the war years. Sounds awful

stewamax
Lemon Quarter
Posts: 2417
Joined: November 7th, 2016, 2:40 pm
Has thanked: 83 times
Been thanked: 782 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#359939

Postby stewamax » November 25th, 2020, 1:07 pm

On Fridays in WW2 both powdered egg and canned snoek were indicated. My mother remembered snoek as 'just horrid'.

James
Lemon Slice
Posts: 295
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 3:12 pm
Has thanked: 69 times
Been thanked: 111 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#359948

Postby James » November 25th, 2020, 1:21 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:I can still remember my late dad's stories about powdered egg during the war years. Sounds awful

To be fair, food science, like most other things, has moved on a bit in the past 75 years.

Rhyd6
Lemon Quarter
Posts: 1262
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 10:01 pm
Has thanked: 3475 times
Been thanked: 1103 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#359976

Postby Rhyd6 » November 25th, 2020, 3:22 pm

Mum only tried snoek once, apparently it was tinned whale meat - ugh! I too was brought up on Ostermilk, thank you for reminding me of the name I'd been trying in vain to recall it. We were very lucky to live in the country so had planty of "wild" food to hand. Dad was in the Home Guard and most nights when he was on duty up the mountain watching for planes heading to Liverpool he brought home a rabbit for the pot.

R6

6Tricia
2 Lemon pips
Posts: 243
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 11:00 am
Has thanked: 721 times
Been thanked: 103 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#359992

Postby 6Tricia » November 25th, 2020, 4:06 pm

1945 - school lunches. Brilliant orange scrambled eggs and Spam or whale mince/horse meat with cabbage and boiled potatoes, usually followed by rice pudding or spotted dick! I've probably forgotten other - equally disgusting menus - but the stodgy eggs and the grey of the whale mince have stuck in my mind :evil: .

Tricia

AleisterCrowley
Lemon Half
Posts: 6381
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 11:35 am
Has thanked: 1880 times
Been thanked: 2026 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#360003

Postby AleisterCrowley » November 25th, 2020, 4:22 pm

Whale meat. As sung about by Vera Lynn

gvonge
Lemon Pip
Posts: 72
Joined: November 7th, 2016, 9:33 am
Has thanked: 80 times
Been thanked: 46 times

Re: Powdered eggs

#360028

Postby gvonge » November 25th, 2020, 5:15 pm

Rhyd6 wrote:Mum only tried snoek once, apparently it was tinned whale meat - ugh!
R6


It's a fish, not whale meat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrsites


Return to “Food”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests