What to do with all these eggs

If you are lucky enough to have ducks that lay nine eggs in one day, here is what you do:-

A traditional Cornish recipe is 'Stary Gazey pie', well here is the Hampshire version 'Clucky Cwacky Oinky pie'. The main ingredients are Chicken, Bacon, sausage meat and eggs.

Clucky Cwacky Oinky pie

Make pastry using 8 oz plain flour and 4 oz margerine. Line a deep dish. Bake lightly.

In a deep frying pan or wok lightly fry, small chunks of chicken, short strips of bacon, little balls of sausage meat, one chopped onion, a handful of chopped mushrooms and a tin of creamed muchroom. Add mixed herbs if desired.

Hard boil 4 eggs

Once the eggs are cooked, cool and shelled, place them whole in the pastry case. Pack the chicken mix around them then cover with the remaining pastry.

Lightly brush with beaten eggs.

Place in the oven at about 200 until the pastry is browned.

While that is cooking you make a lemon and lime cake.

Lemon and Lime cake

Make a standard sponge mix with 8 oz self raising flour, sugar and butter and 4 eggs.

Grate the lemon rind finely and the lime rind coursely. Squeeze both the lemon and lime and add all the juice and rind to the cake mix.

Bake until done (I am sure there is recipe that says how long but until a knife comes out clean when plunged into the middle)

There you have it - nine eggs and full tummies.

Don't forget the vegetarians, so if you have still have four eggs left over from yesterday a red onion, sweetcorn, tomato and goats cheese quiche is a healthy alternatice.

13 eggs used in less than an hour.