to feed minute amounts of raw egg to the neighbourhood children?

[DuchessOfAvon]

I hate putting cash into retailers' pockets for this whole Halloween marlarkey - so I have been happily baking Nigella biscuits in the shape of ghosts and cats and bats. Overcome with creativity I thought it would be a wheeze to turn them all into skeletons and have whipped up a batch of quick-setting royal icing and traced in the bones.

Except I have just realised the implications of royal icing having raw egg in it. Should I
a) type up ingredient slips with disclaimers and make sure every child has one with the biscuit.
b) give the biscuits out without any warning.
c) keep the biscuits to poison my own kids, run to the local supermarket and buy shite lovely treats to distribute.
d) hide in the house with the lights off and eat the biscuits myself.

e) post them to me who will happily test them for salmonella/any other raw egg related poisoning and post you an update once I have polished them off?

Tricky, but I will be doing option d. And my biscuits aren't even poisonous.

Give them the biscuits but tell them about the icing .
My ds would throw up if he ate one but would not in any way be upset at not being able to have on because of the egg . He will get plenty of rubbish to eat elsewhere .

They sound fab by the way .

I want to be your neighbour. PM me your address and the outline of your front door key.

the eggs were presumably from vacinated hens?

It sounds lovely..but being of a cautious nature I wouldn't let mine eat home baked things....I know I am probably going to get flamed for that...but you just can't be sure what's gone into things...raw egg aside.

I think if you are prepared to let your children go around to other people's houses and ask for food (and I am, so no flaming here), then it is up to you to police it really!

Eggs from Waitrose - of course. Organic icing sugar, lovely butter, happily harvested flour. These are not just any poisonous Halloween biscuits, they are middle-class poncey poisonous Halloween biscuits. I am wearing a Boden top AND a Cath Kidston apron too. (And I am not even Miranda from the Great British Bake Off.)

[hgrin]

So - poison the kids, but warn them in advance then?

As long as the eggs had the lion mark on they can't have salmonella.

May be worth asking if the kids have any allergies before giving the biscuits as some are allergic to eggs in general.

I think any child who says 'oh, no, not a minute amount of raw egg, dearie me, I must decline' rather than AH A BISCUIT deserves to be poisoned, frankly, on the basis of Preciousness.

And in any case if one of them does get poisoned they'll have ingested so much crap in the neighbourhood that nobody will ever suspect you.

Ah yes, allergies are different, I suppose. Just say These Have A Bit Of Egg in them.

Formash

Does that mean you never let your kids go to other kids houses for tea in case they have home made food?????

I assume all other kids refuse your food too.

b

DS would be delighted to be given a bones biscuit

I was going to make something but I was too tired so I bought a bucket of Haribo.

OK - so how about:

I only poison kids I know and whose parents I have lulled into a false sense of security by not having poisoned their kids in the past.

Give fruit to the rest.

(I didn't inject anything into them)

And brace myself for disgruntled but alive kids from houses I don't know.

Just give them all the biscuits and let God decide.

Will the defense of being an Instrument of the Lord stand up in court?

It worked for Blair.

Why not offer them on a festive themed platter decorated with monster face painted eggs.

Surely then no one can say they weren't warned if they come down with monster egg tummy?