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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: egg recipes wanted
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 13:11:33 EDT
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> Never forget that an angel food cake requires a dozen egg whites.
>
Aha! A perfect opening for a question I had meant to ask some time
ago and which had slipped my mind.

To any of you out there who make cakes from scratch, and have used
the proverbial dozen egg whites to make an angel food cake:

What do you do with the yolks?

My wife had a recollection that in more than one cookbook, on the page 
with the angel food cake recipe(s), there would be a recipe for
a "sunshine cake", which would use the twelve yolks and no whites.
Well, a few weeks back, for the first time in many years, she made an 
angel food cake. But there was no sign of this fabled "sunshine cake"
recipe in that cookbook, nor any mention of what to use the yolks for.

So we started looking through dozens of cookbooks. We found quite a
few recipes for "sunshine cake", by that name, in many cookbooks.
However, each one, without exception, called for a number of egg yolks
AND an equal or close number of egg whites! "Sunshine cake", it seemed,
was NOT something to use up excess yolks.

We rooted around and found some various non-cake recipes that called
for extra yolks, and finally threw the rest into some pancake batter.
This episode has caused my wife a bit of distress, as she was sure
that she remembered it being common for angel food cake recipes to give 
pointers to, or be located near, recipes to use up the yolks. Yet
none of our cookbooks did that. Does anyone else recall this from
the dim and misty past?

Anyway, please post your suggestions regarding recipes that use many
egg yolks but no whites (it needn't call for twelve).

Regards,
Will Martin

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