On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:34:52 +0000, Dave
wrote:

UK food and drink Misc has a poster that wants to preserve eggs. Can
you help?

I've no direct experience but I do recall a sailor who circumnavigated
Antarctica in the early 1970's bought his supplies for the voyage
including hundreds of freshly laid eggs from Southern Chile.

His book says how he contemplated different storage methods and
isinglass was one treatment he tried. But he spread his chances -
mainly due to lack of time before he set off and he left a good
proportion of his eggs untreated. The best results were from storage
in the bilge at around 5 deg C with no other treatment. If I recall
correctly the eggs were still edible at 9 months but he said most
people would have declared a slightly earlier cutoff point.

I still have the book but it is not immediately to hand to check all
the details - the title is Ice Bird by David Fisher, long out of
print but it's available secondhand from numerous online
booksellers/listing sites.

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