Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark The ultimate "Teutonic Houseware" for those of us with a bent for the history of photography are the egg coddlers sold by "Martha Stewart" (which no longer has a significant connection with the REAL Martha Stewart, but what the hey). These egg coddlers are manufactured by Jenaer Glasswerke and are authentic reproductions of the egg coddlers sold by Carl Zeiss Jena before the War. "Jenaer Glasswerke" is the old Schott und Genosen Jena glassworks, now restored to the Zeiss Stiftung's fold, so you get a)Schott glass b)CZJ design and c) the most excellent coddled eggs you can imagine. HIGHLY recommended. I recognize that coddled eggs are an acquired taste but, damn!, they do make a most wonderful meal, with English mufins and a side of thick bacon and tea. (For the benefit of the Nikon users in our midst, I should point out that coddled eggs are soft boiled eggs moved a factor upwards by removing them from their shells. That is, the egg coddler is coated with melted butter, then an egg is broken into it, salt, pepper, and cheese or whatever are added, and then a second egg is treated to equal indignity on top of this. 8 minutes or a bit less in a pot of boiling water and nirvana is readily achieved. The British Royal Worcester company also manufactures a magnificent line of egg coddlers, but these CZJ ones are more useful, one rare example of Germanic technology being both simpler and more useful than someone else's concept.) Kippered Herring, if you can find them (here, in Roanoke, Virginia, I am reduced to Pacific-origini Smoked Herring and that is a rare find) also make a superlative accompaniment to coddled eggs. Ova in nil tempore magnificier faciuntur! Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html