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GIANT EGG




A German recipe from a Basel manuscript (15th century) - (Thomas Gloning's Documentation)

A dish made of 30 or 40 eggs



For to make a dish of 30 eggs or 40 into one (big) egg, you must take two pig's bladders, such that one of them is smaller than the other. Wash them out carefully inside. Then take the eggs, remove the shell, and separate thewhite from the yolk. Take the small pig's bladder, mix the yolks and put them into the smaller bladder, so that the bladder is full. Tie the bladder up carefully and give it into a pot. Let boil, until the yolks get firm. Then put off the bladder from the yolks. Take the bigger bladder and cut a little hole in it, so that one can put in the big yolk. Then you must sew up this hole of the bigger bladder with the (big) yolk within. Then you have to mix up the white of the eggs. Take a funnel, put it into the opening hole of the bigger bladder and put the white of the eggs upon the yolk within the bigger bladder, so that the bladder gets full. Tie it up, put it into the pot and let boil once more. The white of the eggs will boil around the (big) yolk, and there will be one big egg. You can serve it with a sauce of vinegar.

 
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