Gougere misery

For John Thackara's surprise birthday party I planned to make cheese gougeres (see my blog entry July 20). All went swimmingly,I beat the bejeezus into the flour/butter/water mixture, added an egg, beat as above, another egg, a third egg----and the forth egg was BAD! And I mean BAD, black and so smelly, I gagged. I had to throw the whole lot out and start anew.


The moral of the story:

Slip each egg into a cup before adding it to the mixture, especially in this very hot weather.

An interesting comment from Debra: in the Jewish kitchen all eggs are examined before use, in case there is a little blood in them.