Egg Threads
From gourmetana 14 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 4
This is a way of preparing egg yolks and sugar (Portugal's favorite taste) for sweets. Egg threads look like mounds of yellow noodles and are served as a garnish to cakes and puddings. They are a little troublesome to make and professional cooks have a funnel with various narrow openings to make the egg yolks drop in fine threads over the boiling sugar. Read more Failing a special funnel, one must of course use and ordinary one, but the operation becomes much more precarious, and success does not always ensue. Nevertheless, do not dismay, because any egg yolk dropped unevenly over the syrup will be still edible, though less pretty to look at :) See less
Ingredients
- 7 oz granulated sugar shopping list
- 1 whole egg plus 4 egg yolks, beaten lightly together shopping list
- 3 fl oz water shopping list
How to make it
- Boil the sugar and water until thickish.
- Reduce the heat but keep the syrup at boiling point.
- Drop half the egg mixture into the syrup through the funnel, rotating it to form the threads and allowing them to cook for a couple of minutes.
- Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a damp plate. Repeat the procedure with the remaining eggs, after adding a drop of water to the syrup to prevent becoming too hard.
- Separate the cooked threads with the help of 2 forks so that they do not remain stuck together. Use the same day you cook these.
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awsome post a must try thaks high5
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what a great post...I have never heard of this recipe... thank you ..five forks and flagged as interesting...
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Not only a great post but the fact that you showed additional photos that used these Egg Threads is fantastic.
Fascinating & Fabulous.
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