240-Year-Old Recipe for Pickling Eggs - Historical Food Preservation

Here is another video that is part of our 18th century food preservation series. It is a very simple method for Pickling Eggs found in the 1777 edition of "The Lady's Assistant Cookbook." Whether you use these eggs as a garnish or as a dish by itself, this recipe makes stunningly colorful and delicious treats.

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[MartKencuda]

One of the many things I love about these videos is that you don't hold these recipes hostage. What I mean is that you suggest to use a product that you sell, but also give us alternatives in case we don't want to or can't buy the product. It's very commendable and really shows that you care more about spreading the information and experience rather than selling something.

[wisewomanhealing]

If you don't want to use smashed bugs to dye your eggs, try the papery skins from red onions. These are used to dye eggs red for Pascha (Orthodox Christian Easter). While we do it to the outside of the shell, I don't see why it wouldn't work the same as in this recipe.

[infoscholar]

So I'm about to pickle eggs, and a google search for an offbeat recipe brings me directly to one of my favorite channels' older videos. Excellent!~

[MarkoHolopainen]

I saw a few years ago that if you use a metal spike to make a single small hole in the bottom of the egg before you put into the water to boil the water is able to enter the egg shell and makes the white pull away from the shell making it easier to peel, The Japanese use this technique for making the garnishes for their Ramen noodle dishes

[Art-qygd]

A little secret. Boil onion peel with your vinegar and water. It'll color them and give them onion flavor. Is how we make them for Easter

[dreamfartu]

how were you able to harvest those eggs when chickens in the 1800's were seven feet tall and strong as three men

[Ammo]

I love pickled eggs. When I empty a jar of dill pickles I save the juice, and pickle some eggs..no one else in the house eats them, so I'm happy...

[VicodinElmo]

Pickled eggs are one of those things I despised as a child (but my parents loved them) and then, as an adult, for some inexplicable reason, I wanted to try them again. Then I realised they’re frickin’ great and can’t get enough of them!!

[SuperMacDaddy]

I use beet juice and apple cider vinegar when I pickle eggs. I put the beets on top of the eggs to keep them under the solution and mine only take 4 days to pickle.
I am excited to try this recipe. I enjoy trying new things in the kitchen, especially something from the past like this!

[Underscore]

This channel is extremely informative. The methods for preserving food without a refrigerator are something that people take for granted with today's preservatives but in a year or even months of a disaster, this is definitely good to know.

Excellent channel!

[argoneonoble]

'Food preservation techniques, if done poorly can be, ahhh, . . . bad for you. '
Just say it, John: it can be DEADLY.

[K]

Pickled beets and eggs are a family specialty. Loved this!

[KasranFox]

You're one of the most pleasant people I've seen on Youtube. I've learned so much just from a small handful of your videos, and I already have a whole bunch of recipes I want to try. I want to savor the flavors and aromas of the 18th century!

[philcurry]

Your videos are more effective than therapy, Mr. Townsend. I always feel so relaxed and pleasant after taking a little mental vacation to simpler times on this channel.

[RRaucina]

Hibiscus flowers make a fine colorant for eggs. Also, dried elderberries.

[johndolan]

As a teenager, there was nothing more fun than pickled eggs, some beer and a Bic lighter, but than, I wasn't hugged enough as child.

[Saiyan_Goku]

I really like seeing how much you care about history and your channel. I wish more people enjoyed their work like you do

[mjremy]

When I was in Tucson, AZ, the prickly pear cactus had a white woolly insect infestation. I crushed a few and a red dye came out. I realized then that this was cochineal, a little bug that produces a red color. Most commercial red dye is this bug. To think I could have made my own red dye! Its a flood of color that comes from just a few bugs. Amazing!
Great recipe! I especially like the mace rind! I will make some with Herbes de Provence, and some with Oregano as in Mexican Pickled Carrot.

[ESport]

I like the vibe of this show; I would liken it to feeling cozy.

[notasb]

Growing up in Kentucky I walked to the old country store and got pickled Bologna and pickled eggs a lot and none of that stuff was ever refrigerated, it was kept out on the counter in a jar and when I would go in and get one the man would just get it out and hand it to ya in some waxed paper. I never got sick and I, alive to tell ya about it somehow 🙂