seeking Goose Egg recipes - meringue and lemon curd

For those of you that are curious, the eggs from my youngest goose, Chestnut (as in she was going to be christmas dinner as roast goose, roast chestnut, Chestnut, too lovely to eat) weigh 200g (give or take 10g) with shell. The eggs from an older goose (like chickens, goose eggs get larger as the bird ages) weighs 352g. Older goose (also known as White Quiet One) doesn't lay eggs very often due to her age (a domestic goose can live up to 100 years according to most hatcheries, but I have yet to live long enough yet to see it firsthand). I only have one egg from White quiet one this week.

Got some organic lemons, with luck I'll have a chance to make lemon curd tonight. I want to try this one, but not sure how many goose eggs to use: https://food52.com/recipes/22935-lemon-curd Maybe just the large one.

Trampled by geese. I so enjoy reading your posts!

CV, I'm sorry to have caused you such distress, although it is good to see someone so passionate about eggs. As a farmer on a small family farm, it is inspiring to see people care about their food.

I'm not certain what you mean by weighing by the dozen, perhaps this is an industrial method of grading eggs, but not a homestead style. It's actually a very simple process. Once the eggs are washed and inspected, they are weighed on an egg scale and sorted according to which weight range they fit in. As a passionate egg person, you know that chickens have many different sizes of eggs. A bantam can lay an egg the size of a quail egg, and a Brahma will lay one ranging from large to jumbo, or often off the standard egg scale. In the shop, I'm told, one will often see medium or large eggs, mostly because these are the size eggs produced by the kinds of chickens that lay a lot of eggs quickly - ie, are ideal to large scale egg operations. Because these eggs are so beautifully sorted, consumers forget what a broad range of sizes eggs naturally come in.

Geese have even more diverse range of size and shapes to their bodies and yes, even their eggs. I'm very surprised to see how limited the internet is when it comes to information about goose egg variation. There are several possible reasons why my geese lay large eggs. For a start, they are a much larger kind of goose than is standard. They are also not a goose breed for egg production. Another possible explanation is that they are of mixed parentage. Perhaps it is simply hybrid vigour. There are lots of other possibilities, but really how much do we want to get into goose genetics on a cooking site?

I'm raiding the nest tomorrow, so with any luck, I can find my camera and take some photos. I'm very curious to discover how much of the egg is shell and how much is well, yummy egg.

So now everyone else reading this thread knows more about eggs than they ever wanted to. Perhaps we could focus on recipes and deliciousness?

Well, it just so happens that I happen to have some large eggs in my fridge and I weighed them. Six eggs = 363 g = 12.84 oz.

Your claim that one of your geese's eggs are equivalent to one dozen hen eggs is decidedly dubious. You are saying that your geese lay eggs that are 726 g or 25.68 ounces apiece.

I would love to see you post a photograph of one of these eggs with a chicken egg and a quarter for reference.

My understanding is that eggs from quail, chickens, ducks and geese all have similar chemical properties (at least in culinary matters) and that they are interchangeable. Chicken eggs reign supreme in the kitchen largely because they are cheap (much of this has to do with the raising of chickens versus the other three birds).

I'm rather surprised by your claim that the egg from one of your geese is the same weight as a dozen chicken eggs.

Here's an NPR story comparing eggs from the four birds:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/04/18/303772743/hunting-for-the-tastiest-egg-duck-goose-chicken-or-quail

Note carefully that the goose egg -- while larger than the chicken and duck eggs -- is not twelve times heavier than a chicken egg. That would seem to be more in the realm of ostrich eggs.

I've purchased and used some duck eggs from my local farmers market. Yes, the shells are thicker than chicken eggs, but the eggs aren't remarkably different flavorwise from chicken eggs from the same farmer.

Weigh four empty bowls, then separate the goose egg into two of those. Crack open a large chicken egg, separate into two more bowls, then weigh.

Do the arithmetic, that's the only way to be sure since your geese are laying unusually large eggs.

Good luck.

I found a meringue recipe that might work - https://food52.com/blog/9946-how-to-make-meringues-with-any-amount-of-leftover-egg-whites

Do I have to do anything to compensate for the fact that they are goose eggs?