Cinco de Montho
6/5/2006

It's about 5 months until the first plane arrives, so somehow we've got to keep our eggs persevered else I guess we'd be having powdered ones. I never heard about 'oiling' eggs to preserve them, but that's what we all did tonight. The galley bought 'cervezas' and we went through cases of eggs, oiling them to seal them and rotating them to keep them from compacting on one side. Supposedly it's great fun, but I think the beers brought everyone in. Then the comrade spirit kicked in.
6 Comments:
I asked around--no-one here's ever heard of oiling eggs either. But I have to admit, a bottle of the golden liquid makes an excellent bribe.
Hi Erik...
Egg oiling has progressed a bit...last year we did it in the kitchen and I didn't know about turning them upside down. Still, beer was consumned and we had good eggs all winter :)
During my first winter in the old days, oiling hadn't been invented yet. The last few started going bad before we ran out in June. Then we had frozen bottled eggs and Navy powdered eggs from the old station...yuk!
My wife grew up on a poultry farm. She understands the reason for the oiling but thinks that turning the eggs over is taking a big risk of breaking a membrane and ruining the egg.
I've heard of long distance sailors doing the same thing with wax though that sounds like a lot more work.
Hmmm..never hoyd of that either. Btw, your blog is being read. :P
Wonder if my ancestors did this? Another interesting experience to 'chalk up' in your memories.
First time reading this, thanks for sharing
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