REALLY

As I'm not old enough to know, what exactly was powdered egg?

 

As it says on the run Chunk, dried eggs turned into powder used when most folk couldn't get fresh eggs especially in cities, you mixed it with water or milk and used it in baking etc.

 

1949 was a vintage year for sure
Tho we didn’t have an allotment ( dad was a merchant seaman) we knew all about shy bairns get nowt.
It was the mid-week one-pot dinners/tea that was often a soup or broth made from whatever was in the larder, that our mam used to make.
This was bulked out by your bowl being full of bread before the broth was poured and then there was a plate of bread & butter on the table to help it along.
Still like it this way today.

 

Thank you, doesnt sound that bad

 

People used to try and make scrambled egg with it and that apparently wasn't very nice but I was too young to really remember it but Mam who was a cracking baker used to tell me about those sort of things during rationing.

 

Guilty me' lord

 

When we couldn't get eggs for 2 weeks and the kids were pestering for me to bake cakes and biscuits for them I would have happily used powdered egg

 

Can ya garn pick some strawberries like as we're letting the foreigners back in and me and the gang cannot be arsed

 

Love dipping bread and butter in broth.

 

You can buy !!! On second thoughts I maybe thinking of egg white powder l know you can use that for meringues !!! isn’t birds custard powder a form of dried egg?

 

Not really sure tbh, I only ever had a poultry amount ...

Am I right in thinking it's egg white powder or a meringue

 

Nothing better than a cauldron of broth , by chance we had some yesterday , main accompaniment Was missing Though the Greggs Stottie so had to make do with some crusty bread -not the same like ! Not with butter though yuek.

 

A good dose of coronavirus would cheer them up no end

 

Not sure I would be confident to use custard powder to bake a cake with

My mam has a recipe book for when rationing was around, would be interesting to try and make some of the recipes

 

The Bero book is a good shout... I've already made bread, pizza, killer corned beef pie, steak pie, and a few other things.. It's my mams baking bible.

 

And mine
The recipe for quick (rough) puff pastry is sooo easy makes great pie lids and cheese & onion slice to die for.
love Mrs. Beaton I do.

 

Now you mention that book it brings back memories

 

My better half has a Bero book, she also has her mothers recipe book which goes back eons, but it's good old corned beef hash for us today....yummy