Hello Again! As you know from last time, I haven’t written blog posts for quite a while. This is what actually happened that sparked off interest and wonderment again. I like to make pickles and have all sorts of jars of indescribable food things next to my bedside (coolest place in the house). I always had this inner cultural fascination to make the perfect salted egg…I managed (kinda) with duck eggs. Please note that only the Asian readers might have a clue about what I am raving on about. To achieve a perfect salted egg, the yolk has to become golden orange/yellow and oily. If you have had a mooncake with the duck egg yolk, you might know. Anyway, I haven’t been able to achieve this same effect with a goose egg…probably because they are so big so it is hard for the salt to penetrate through the whole thing.

To salt eggs, there are two methods: one is immersion of eggs into salt solution or the second is to tightly pack eggs in salt, ash and spices. The first method did not work for the goose eggs and the salt couldn’t get into the yolk area to do its magical thing. I had to throw this experiment away which was an awful waste of eggs!! And the second technique? I have had the gallon jar sitting there for 2 years. Since I can be a bit of an Eeyore, I thought that since the first method didn’t work…why would the second? Terrible, terrible logic but there you go!! I lamented over this jar, hugged it and talked to it for 2 years and finally, I had enough of looking at a ‘failed experiment’ that I loathed to throw out.

The other day, I decided that I really should dispose of this jar of eggs and be done with all the anguish and suffering! As an after thought, I cracked open one goose egg just to see the result. This is what I got:

It looks right and it smells right and it is very Chinesy!! It actually worked!! I got my Golden Goose Egg! I cried out for joy and showed Gnome my success. He said:

‘…well, it just needed time…the Chinese do call these century eggs…at least you didn’t have to wait 100 years!!’

So, the moral of my story is:

Don’t give up on the quest for the Golden Egg!

or

Don’t lament at a jar of pickled eggs for 2 years and suffer needlessly for no reason!

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