How to Make Marbled Eggs for Easter - The Victorian Way

[Music] good afternoon today I'm going to be making marble 2x they're made from set cream flavored with chocolate and vanilla and I'll present them on a savoy cake stand Lord and Lady Braves daughter Augusta is visiting this Easter and Lady Braybrook has asked me to make something fun to remind her of her childhood at Easter hunting painted eggs for this recipe you will need [Music] firstly bring your cream to an even heat but not quite boiling and then you can add your sugar once the sugars melted you can add the soaked gelatine and stir it until it's melted I'm very lucky I have a good grocer nearby so I can cry pocketed gelatine and sheets I remember when I was younger I used to have to make it myself out of carves feet now the gelatine is melted we need to take out half of the cream and to this half I'm going to add the vanilla keep the other half on the stove and into that melt some chocolate Thank You Sylvia I'm using fine grated chocolate but if you worked in a more modest household you could of course use cocoa and now put both flavored creams to one side and let them set to room temperature it's time to prepare your eggs using something sharp very carefully make a little hole right at the top and then another at the bottom I like to make the hole at the bottom just a little bit bigger it'll make it easier to blow and then poke it in waggle it around to break the yolk and then you're ready [Music] do that with all the eggs you want to set ah Thank You Silvia you can take this and make an omelet this ice has come from the ice house here oddly end when we're at the London house I buy imported ice I think it comes from North America anyway I'm going to lay the eggs on the ice but before I do that I'm going to make one of the holes big enough to be able to fit my little funnel and I'm going to block the other one with a mix of flour and water which will then stop the cream escaping out the bottom now it's time to fill the eggs take one of the creams and really carefully put in about two spoonfuls full of the mixture be very gentle remember they're delicate moulds and then out the other colour and once you've done that let it set leave it for about ten minutes tip it slightly if it's still runny let it set some more and once you've filled all the eggs you can leave them on the ice or put them in the ice cave or if you live in a modern house put it in a refrigerator just don't let them freeze otherwise the gelatine won't work now the eggs are set it's time to peel them I've cracked this one a little and I'm going to work away with my nail and peel all the shell away really carefully and a good tip is to have a warm cloth just on hand as it gets a little sticky it might be quite fun to make the eggs different colors maybe even make them out of jelly however these are more traditional and more elegant [Music] I've put my eggs in a savoy cake piped with royal icing and this will be served as a second course sweet entree there we are marble two eggs [Music]

Channel: English Heritage

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Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 23 2018