My last dessert Egg Tart for a while
@sica98 (2441)
Malaysia
August 10, 2022 2:24am CST
I love eating egg tart it is one of my favorite childhood dessert 
.I’ve grown up eating them all my life,so I made some egg tart yesterday but I realized that this recipe uses a lot of eggs in it and the price of egg has gone up dramatically a lot recently here.A lot of recipe I like to make uses lots of egg like Quiche,Frittata,meringue and others.I am thinking that I might need to cut down of using eggs in my baking and cooking due to the price hike.This egg tart you see above might be the last one I will ever make until I look for a substitute for egg in this recipe which happen to be the major ingredient in this recipe.I might even have to cut down eating eggs for breakfast.
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A fact I'd like to share about egg tart:Hong Kong egg tarts are derived from the Portuguese pastel de nata from when the Portuguese arrived at Macau at the turn of the twentieth century.
How are the prices of egg in your country?Would you cut down the amount of eggs you use in your daily cooking/baking life if the price of egg has gone really high?What would you substitute your egg with mylotters?
.I’ve grown up eating them all my life,so I made some egg tart yesterday but I realized that this recipe uses a lot of eggs in it and the price of egg has gone up dramatically a lot recently here.A lot of recipe I like to make uses lots of egg like Quiche,Frittata,meringue and others.I am thinking that I might need to cut down of using eggs in my baking and cooking due to the price hike.This egg tart you see above might be the last one I will ever make until I look for a substitute for egg in this recipe which happen to be the major ingredient in this recipe.I might even have to cut down eating eggs for breakfast..
A fact I'd like to share about egg tart:Hong Kong egg tarts are derived from the Portuguese pastel de nata from when the Portuguese arrived at Macau at the turn of the twentieth century.
How are the prices of egg in your country?Would you cut down the amount of eggs you use in your daily cooking/baking life if the price of egg has gone really high?What would you substitute your egg with mylotters?13 people like this
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@Greencindere (669)
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10 Aug 22
Cartoon of dozen eggs here in Zambia is about 2$. The price increased since I came here in April. But the meat price increased even more. So yeah I feel your frustration.
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@Greencindere (669)
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10 Aug 22
@sica98 exactly! The basket gets filled with less and less each day.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
10 Aug 22
I believe we paid about $3 for a dozen brown eggs a few days ago. (We did switch from white chicken eggs to brown ones because the price for a dozen white chicken eggs is over $4 now.)
Some weeks we use more eggs than other weeks. When I made the bowl of chicken salad two days ago I used 8 boiled chicken eggs in my recipe.
Pretty doesn't really care for eggs most of the time, so we only use them in recipes that I'm eating.
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@sica98 (2441)
• Malaysia
10 Aug 22
Eggs are a huge part in my diet but it is quite expensive here and I use brown egg in my cooking and baking.It is much more common to use brown egg here but it's not only egg that has gone up but chicken as well,even vege is overly price nowdays.Grocery shopping is very expensive these days.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
10 Aug 22
@sica98 Most people prefer white chicken eggs here because they claim that brown chicken eggs taste "different", even though it is scientifically proven that chickens given the same diet, have eggs that taste exactly the same. The color of the eggs doesn't matter.
The price of chicken has gone up here, as well. That hasn't changed our eating habits, though. It just means we don't buy as much as we had been buying before prices started rising. (Pretty had a habit of buying "extra" canned and boxed foods that are shelf-stable to store in the kitchen cabinets or in the garage that we wouldn't necessarily need for the two weeks that we shopped for. That has mostly stopped now and we're buying things we will actually use during that same two week period between shopping trips.)
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@sica98 (2441)
• Malaysia
10 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil Me and my mom has been stocking up on some canned food recently.It is cheaper as well last longer.We are trying to save more these days.I am going to the grocery store more often when there is cheap promotion just to save on grocery shopping.My friend even said some area has sugar shortage to buy at stores.
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@Beestring (13513)
• Hong Kong
10 Aug 22
I love egg tart. It's one of my favorite dessert. Eggs in Hong Kong are not particularly expensive. It's about USD4.00 for 10 large eggs, imported from Japan.
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@everwonderwhy (6697)
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11 Aug 22
I like egg tarts. They look similar to custards. I get my free-range eggs from a nice lady nearby.
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@LindaOHio (159080)
• United States
10 Aug 22
The price of eggs has gone up but not prohibitively so.
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@LindaOHio (159080)
• United States
11 Aug 22
@sica98 I've never had one before.
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@sica98 (2441)
• Malaysia
11 Aug 22
@LindaOHio You should try them they are simply delicious.It is a pastry consisting of a flaky outer shell with a creamy egg custard in the center.
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@JordanLader (4669)
• Sparta, Tennessee
10 Aug 22
Eggs are high here, at least for me. Most are over $3 a dozen. I was getting eggs from a friend but their chickens slowed down laying so I haven't been getting them lately.
Despite the eggs being expensive and not getting them from our friend...I'm still baking the same amount. If it doesn't change by December though, I may not bake as much for Christmas as I usually do.
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@JordanLader (4669)
• Sparta, Tennessee
10 Aug 22
@sica98 Same here. I bake during Christmas for the family and then for the family we visit in Maryland right after Christmas. It'll hurt a bit if I have to cut down
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@sica98 (2441)
• Malaysia
10 Aug 22
@JordanLader I didn't thought that the future would be like this cutting down on essential grocery item.Here's to hoping things will be better and we'll be able to bake for this Christmas.
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