Easter Eggs And Ordinary Eggs.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 78, 1 April 1931, Page 8

Easter Eggs And Ordinary Eggs.

It Occurs To Me.

QNE may regard the Easter glorification of the egg as some small compensation for the daily abuse of the hen’s humble product by boardinghouse keepers and amateur cooks. I would not remind you of the potentialities of the ordinary egg. but to commend to your notice the philosophy of Thomas Carlyle. “ Those two eggs you ate for breakfast this morning might, if hatched, have peopled the whole world with poultry,” he said. But Tom Moore exclaims more enthusiastically, “ Who can help loving the land that has taught us " Six hundred and eighty-nve ways to dress eggs?” That land was France. Unfortunately the art has not penetrated to this country. An egg is still an egg, the staple of the breakfast table and masculine diet, and hence the mainstay of industry. It is fitting, perhaps, that the twenty-sixth competition of the New Zealand Utility Poultry' Club should commence so soon after the Easter celebrations, but as an act of philanthropy they might very well arrange a demonstration by a chef who would teach us some of the six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress the results of this competitive egg-laying. g