Frugal Friday
Apr. 11th, 2025 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Welcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed.Rule #1: this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc. I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
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preserving eggs
Date: 2025-04-12 12:43 pm (UTC)Around May, I start putting the eggs away. However, I use quart jars and put 6 to 8 eggs per jar numbering the jars as I go, then put 5 jars in a case and have 3 cases, which go down in our root cellar. One heaping tablespoon hydrated lime to a quart of water.
That may be too fussy for most, but I like knowing which are the oldest to freshest-so to speak-and it saves having to dig through a mound of eggs. I have made mayo out of the preserved eggs, using just the yolk. They scramble well and work fine as an ingredient in recipes.
I read recently that to boil the eggs, first make a tiny hole in the shell, otherwise they could burst, since the lime basically seals the shell.
I love not having to go to the store to get eggs.;^)