To: Shawn Highfield                              
  Subj: Eggs
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-=> Quoting Shawn Highfield to Jim Weller <=-

 SH> Duck ... preserved "Century Egg"

Have you ever encountered Balut? It's a Filipino delicacy: eggs
boiled just a day before the embryo is ready to hatch. I tried one
once as the Vietnamese guy who ran our one and only pan-Asian store
carried them. It was surprising tasty, not gross at all: there was
no yolk left and the little bird tasted just like regular poached
duck only milder, the way veal is milder than beef, while the liquid
tasted just like soup broth. My oldest granddaughter Neekha was four
then and adventuresome so I bought one for her as well. She said she
was going to eat hers if I ate mine first but changed her mind at
the last minute. She cracked the shell, dried off the unborn
featherless duckling with a paper towel and roasted it in a slow
oven for hours until it was blackened and completely dehydrated. She
called it her duck mummy and took it to show and tell as a science
project.

Cheers

Jim


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