Showing posts with label Eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eggs. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Egg use for Ami...

This recipe is entirely for Ami, who harvests her own eggs.  OK, she doesn't actually harvest but her kids do.  She's a city girl with chickens.  Egg collecting is not in her cards.
To use eggs, I go immediately for something sweet.  And that sweet is an angel food cake.  Most people eat the boxed or pre-made variety but there is something amazing about from scratch.  Ingredients are:
12 egg whites (save the yolks for other recipes, I'll post some)
1.5 t cream of tartar        1 vanilla bean
Beat these together until the eggs form a soft peak consistency.  Slowly add 1 cup of sugar and beat until hard peaks form.
Separately, sift together 1.5 cups POWDERED sugar and 1 cup (minus 2 T.) flour.   Fold dry into the egg mixture.
Pour into an angel food cake pan (or two bread pans) and bake at 350 for roughly 40 minutes.  Once it's done, invert over a bottle to cool for an hour.
Carefully get it out of pan, cut, serve and eat.  I put some sweet cocoa (Gheradelli) in half to make it partially chocolate.  Yumm!