. Eggs: facts and fancies about them . uces the fair white egg — one of the mostdelicious morsels to the human palate, one which fills theheart of man with loving-kindness. In the words of a writer two hundred and fifty yearsago : Believe, dear friend, that no alchemist ever producedfrom furnace or alembic, so rare a treasure as you mayobtain from your hens, if you only know how to combinelabor and delight. PBEFACE. Among the books examined in the arrangement of thislittle work are encyclopaedias, general and specific, chem-istry and other books relating to foods, as well as a largenumber of c
. Eggs: facts and fancies about them . uces the fair white egg — one of the mostdelicious morsels to the human palate, one which fills theheart of man with loving-kindness. In the words of a writer two hundred and fifty yearsago : Believe, dear friend, that no alchemist ever producedfrom furnace or alembic, so rare a treasure as you mayobtain from your hens, if you only know how to combinelabor and delight. PBEFACE. Among the books examined in the arrangement of thislittle work are encyclopaedias, general and specific, chem-istry and other books relating to foods, as well as a largenumber of cook books. The most helpful, however, havebeen The Chemistry of Cooking, by W. M. Williams,Foods, by Edward Smith, M. D., The Franco-Amer-ican Cookery Book, The Modern Householder, by Murrey, How to Cook and Serve Eggs, by G. Hill,[published in England in 1867], All About Eggs [pub-lished in Chicago by Victor Palmer], and books on cook-ery by Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Corson, Miss Parloa, MarionHarland, Helen Campbell and others. EGGS. NAME AND SHAPE. ?HE egg is one of the few things inthe world original and positive initself. Though some specimens areround and some oblong, the usual shape cannot be described by words applicable to other objects. The egg is oval; that is, egg-shaped, since thatword is derived directly from the Latin namefor the egg — ovum. Not only does the egg name itself, but it givesrise to words descriptive of other objects. Ovum may have been derived from the Latinavis, a bird. From this root come the wordsoval, ovary, ovate, ovolo, ovule, etc. The Greek word meaning egg was <b6v ; andfrom this comes oology, etc. The same wordwas sometimes used to describe a bald head. 7 NAME AND SHAPE. Tennyson uses the simile, bald as an egg. From the Anglo-Saxon oeg comes the wordwe use to-day. Chaucer and other early writersuse the forms ey, eg, egge. The verb to egg, meaning to incite, is nownearly obsolete. Thou shouldst be prancing on thy steedTo egg thy soldie
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