Egg Tips for National Egg Month

Egg Tips for National Egg Month

May is National Egg Month. Check back each day this week for egg tips and recipes. What’s the difference between brown and white eggs? The color of the shell. Color is determined by the color of the hen’s feathers and ear lobes. Hens with white feathers and lobes lay white eggs and those with red Hungry for more?

Soufflés — A Love Story

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My first experience with soufflés came during my very first hours working as an extern (code name for person who knows nothing and makes even less) in the kitchen of a now defunct French restaurant in Washington, DC. I’d watched the soufflé demonstration in cooking school, but weaseled my way out of actually making one Hungry for more?

How to Separate an Egg

How to Separate an Egg

Cream of Tartar

Cream of Tartar

Cream of tartar, or potassium acid tartrate if you want to get chemical about it, is a fine, white powder made by purifying and grinding the crystals that form inside wine barrels during the wine-making process It’s also an ingredient in baking powder. You can find it in the spice section of the grocery store. Hungry for more?

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