Pavlova - what to do with the egg yolks?

[Whenismumhome]

I want to try making a pavlova sometime soon for the first time - I hope it doesn’t go disastrously wrong.

Anyway, I’m kind of hesitant to do it though as I don’t want to waste all those egg yolks - what can you do with them?

Custard. Mayonnaise. Hollandaise.

Proper custard - mmmmmmm

Ice cream

And they freeze.

I have the opposite issue. I make real custard and have to save the whites

Lemon curd.

Carbonara! Or this time of year there's always mince pies to glaze....

Just add them to
Scrambled eggs and omelettes

Lemon curd. You then dollop the curd onto the pavlova and cover it with billows of whipped cream and fresh fruit, holy moly.

I'll find my recipe.

Mayonnaise. Really easy if you have a food processor.

@FlibbertyGiblets

Lemon curd. You then dollop the curd onto the pavlova and cover it with billows of whipped cream and fresh fruit, holy moly.

I'll find my recipe.

Fuck. Yes. I’ll have the recipe please!

Custard. My 11 year old would eat a vat of proper, homemade custard if one were available.

Or you could just buy a tub of liquid egg white instead of eggs, if you really don’t want to use up the yolks.

@FlibbertyGiblets

Lemon curd. You then dollop the curd onto the pavlova and cover it with billows of whipped cream and fresh fruit, holy moly.

I'll find my recipe.

Yes. I’ll find my recipe it’s from 1980 something.

@WingBingo

Mayonnaise. Really easy if you have a food processor.

I do it by hand which puts me off doing it too often. And the calories. Can I use my normal foolproof recipe but do it in the processor?

What’s everyone’s custard recipe and do you have to use cream or would semi skimmed milk work?

Crème brûlée!

I've had the opposite problem; I had to use up egg whites to make an enormous pavlova after making crème brûlée. Homemade custard with whole milk would very acceptable as well, though. 😋

I have to say I’ve only made homemade custard once and after all of the time it took to make I was very underwhelmed by how like birds custard it tasted. Lemon curd or mayonnaise get my votes.

Creme brûlée

John Torrode's custard recipe on BBC food is fail-safe.

Pasta

Custard tart

You can also add an extra egg yolk to cakes, standard biscuit mix or mashed potato

Carbonara with just egg yolks is good

Pastry for mince pies!

What I usually do is cover them up, put them in the fridge then after a week or 2 I throw them away 😁

@AnneLovesGilbert

What’s everyone’s custard recipe and do you have to use cream or would semi skimmed milk work?

I use delia’s proper custard recipe. It’s pretty much failsafe.

It does work with milk instead of cream. I only ever have whole milk in, but I’d use semi-skimmed if that’s all that was available.

But generally I just use the double cream and don’t care about the calories.