ARTIFICIAL EGGS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 2

ARTIFICIAL EGGS.

They TmoU Like the Natural Product, bat They Will Not Hatch. /There has been quite a sensation in Washington recently on the subject of artificial eggs, writes a correspondent to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A person who claims to have invented a process for making them — patent newly applied for — has been exhibiting samples and giving them away about town. Some dozens have been served in the clubs, boiled, fried, poached and scrambled, and the general verdict is that it would be impossible for anybody to distinguish them from real ones. Externally they look exactly like the sort laid by hens. Break the shell of a raw specimen and the contents flop into a glass in as natural a manner as possible, the yolk and white unmingled. It has been claimed that no imitation egg could ever be made to "beat up" for cake, but these do perfectly. ' The inventor says that his eggs are, chemically speaking, a precise reproduction of nature. Corn meal is the basis of their material. The white is pure albumen, of course, while the yolk is a more complicated mixture of albumen and several other elements. Inside the shell is a lining of what looks somewhat like the delicate, filmy membrane formed by the hen, -while the shell itself is stated to be made in two halves, stuck together so artfully that no one can discover the joining. The very germ of the chicken, with unnecessary ! faithfulness of imitation, as one might think, is eotinterfeifced. : * The eggs we made of various shapes and tints. One will be able to buy, as soon as they are placed on the market, counterfeit pullets' eggs or «gg& laid .by. elderly hens; likewise select white eggs ■j or dark colored eggs, according to !% choice. Most surprising of all, they will be sold for only ten cents a dozen, j and. they never get rotten. To confectioners and others who use larjfe quantities of eggs the yolks and whites will be sold separately, put tip in jars ' and hermetically sealed. In this shape they will also be convenient for household employment. '* ■■ j .