Eggs Without Shells.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 142, 25 March 1909, Page 4

Eggs Without Shells.

Russian exporters, to avoid excessive freight on eggs as well as to avoid loss from breakage, and from spoiling from beat, ship tbem without the shell, i.e., broken and the contents put up in airtight tin boxes, with or without salt, according to the taste of the customer. Each box contains several eggs, and is sold by weight, the size running from half a kilogram up to a pud, some sixteen kilograms. The price of the, latter is five roubles. For use in cooking and for a limited time these tinned or preserved eggs seem to answer very well; that is, on the Continent, for England does not take kindly to them. London, for instance, which buys large quantities of Russian eggs, pays eight roubles a pud for them, against five for the preserved eggs, besides the weight of the shells and the extra freight tariff on eggs. Each block tin box of conserved eggs, whether of half kilo, which is little more than two pounds, or two pud size, must bear the date and hour of its closing thus guarding against getting stale eggs. The amount of eggs put up in boxes and annually exported is enormous, and constantly growing.