Golden Anniversary Yolks
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In May 2007 my parents came to Cambridge to celebrate their golden wedding with us. For this very special occasion I decided to bake a rather lavish Austrian cake (my mother was Austrian and my parents got married there). The recipe required 12 eggs (plus other ingredients including hazel nuts, raspberries, lots of cream). I went to the supermarket (Tesco) and bought a packet of twelve nice large, free-range eggs. When I came to make the cake, the first egg had two yolks. I was a little surprised. The second egg had two also. How odd! By the time I got to egg number twelve and it had two yolks as well, I was gobsmacked. Before that, I had only ever seen one, maybe two, such eggs in my whole life. The cake was a great success, but what stuck with me was how lovely it was to have all those golden pairs of yolks for that particular cake. For me, the timing was the real coincidence.
Kate
Date submitted:Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:05:28 +0000Coincidence ID:6052
