If you put enough salt in the water, the egg floats to the top. Putting sugar in until the egg floats was used as an old culinary method to judge the sugar content in mead production. It also has a double meaning, because lobsters bare eggs under their tails. The book is about motherhood & cooking so it fits well x
Can you explain ‘bearing the egg’? I’ve never heard of it before.
If you put enough salt in the water, the egg floats to the top. Putting sugar in until the egg floats was used as an old culinary method to judge the sugar content in mead production. It also has a double meaning, because lobsters bare eggs under their tails. The book is about motherhood & cooking so it fits well x
Thanks for explaining! It defied the power of search engine and AI 😆