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7 Comments:
You could just make your own. Here's a recipe a friend gave me:
This is for your basic quart jar. You just add more of the same ingredients for a larger jar.
Use good quality vinegar........Heinz, white is excellent
Hard boil the eggs for 9-10 minutes ---you do not want to boil too long because it is nice to keep the yolk a nice yellow. If the yolk gets dark it looks gross when you bite into it!!
Fill the jar about half full of vinegar
Add 1 teaspoon of salt
Add 1 tesspoon of white sugar
Add 2-3 bay leaves
Add 2-3 dried chili peppers
Add 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
Swish around to dissolve the salt and sugar
Add vinegar to fill jar and seal (it doesn't need to be vacumn sealed)
Tip jar up and down to mix things around
Store in refrigerator-----it's good to make a jar at least once a week, then you never run out and have some eggs on hand to impress your friends (ha)! Put a date on the jar so you know what's what.
The eggs should sit for about 2 weeks (at least a week if you are a pickled egg junkie) before eating. You can give the jar a shake once in a while if everything has settled to the bottom.
If the eggs will be in the fridge for a long time and they are pickled to perfection (your taste) you can dump out half the vinegar and replace with clear water so the eggs do not get overly rubbery (tough) --this is all subject to taste.
blush at 3:29PM on 02/11/09
Awesome - thanks! (I'm assuming that the reason it doesn't need to be vacuum sealed, is that they'll be refrigerated, yes?)
Junie at 3:38PM on 02/11/09
@blush Thanks. Will definitely try. However, still curious as to where they might be found. Some British specialty store, perhaps? I'm not sure even the Brits like them, though...whenever I would ask for one at a chip shop the proprietor would look vaguely alarmed.
Michele Humes at 6:01PM on 02/11/09
Pickled eggs used to be a popular item at bars and pubs. Drop in to a neighborhood watering hole, you may find them there.
dmcavanagh at 6:41PM on 02/11/09
@dmcavanagh If they're my neighborhood watering holes, don't you think I've "watered" there? :]
Michele Humes at 8:55AM on 02/12/09
Another super easy way to make them: In college we used to just drop hard boiled eggs into the pickled beets jar (eat the beets, keep the vinegar).
pickle at 12:22PM on 02/12/09
I would think Russ & Daughters on Houston might have them. Also, there is this pickle place (basically 5 barrels outside on the sidewalk), it is called Guss' Pickles on the in/on the LES. They might have them, I know they at least have pickled tomatoes. I am including the link below. Good luck!
http://nymag.com/listings/stores/guss_pickles/
avideater at 9:00PM on 02/18/09