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Following up on the "Baking in the American South" post, I picked up some Nordic Ware pans today for bundt cakes and pound cakes.
Included was a Angel Food cake recipe requiring 12 egg WHITES.
I have no problem separating, but it seems a waste of a DOZEN egg yolks.
Any ideas on what to put them in?
I guess I could make the egg sauce bottle here, but I'd have to buy a Sou Vide machine. :(
Here's quindim, a dessert:
Since the assemblage is tricky to explain, I'm also including a drawing:
The rag is not strictly obligatory but it prevents the moulds from wobbling back and forth.
Further info on this dish: that's a recipe from Northeastern Brazil, originated in colonial times. Back then nuns used egg whites to starch their robes, following what was customary in Portugal, so they were left with a buttload of leftover yolks. One of the ways that they found to use them is to mix with sugar (widely available there, as the region was basically settled for sugar cane farming) and coconut (also widely available there). The name is a borrowing from Kikongo "di-kende", basically "the girls' way".
Nowadays it's available across the whole country and I wouldn't be surprised if it made its way back into Portugal. Most people don't prepare it at home, since it's often sold in bakeries.
So... this is why I'm here. This just hit my list of things that I absolutely must try.
Oh my
Oooh... my wife found a pound cake recipe that could be doubled:
Custard flan. Pure yolks make it so much creamier compared to eggs with whites included.
Crême Brulée.
Make carbonara with the yolks!
I'm not sure about where you live but you might be able to buy a carton of only egg whites instead. They don't work perfectly for every recipe but I've had more good experiences with them than not.
Get some aged eggnog started. I just used 36 yolks for my yearly batch.
Sauce Hollandaise
https://preppykitchen.com/lemon-curd/
wait this one uses an instant pot its easier -> https://myheartbeets.com/instant-pot-lemon-curd/
You would need 3 more yolks for this recipe. I've never tried this dish myself, but it looks really interesting.
Phd Flan. LOL.
Lol!
Its only 5, but here is a carbonara recipe. https://rachaelray.com/blogs/recipes/carbonara-with-saffron-shrimp
You don't need a sous vide machine to do that, especially for something that only needs 30 minutes.
Take a cooler, and fill it with water at the right temp. You can add boiling water or room temp water to adjust up or down. Depending on what you're cooking, you can aim for a few degrees over to account for the temp of the food dropping the water temp. With 12 yolks, I don't think it's necessary. Then just stick your food in and close it up. Depending on how big your food is, how big/good your cooler is, you might want to check the temp a couple times throughout the cook.
Am I the fool for just going to the store and buying a carton of egg whites for this? I suppose it's possible the yolks got wasted anyway for the egg whites I bought in a carton.
At a commercial level I can't imagine they'd go to waste.
You may be able to freeze them and use them later although I think egg whites freeze better than yolks. I have some cookie recipes that use just the yolks. I'll often save up the whites from a cookie recipe in the ice cube tray in the freezer and when I get enough, make angel food cake with it. Was surprised, but frozen egg whites fluff/rise very well in angel food recipes. Cold egg whites can easily be whipped and they don't need to be at room temperature. They just need to be defrosted You can also use yolks in omelette or crepe recipes.