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    Home • Recipes • French Food Tips

    Recipes eight egg yolks

    What to do with leftover egg yolks. Eight 8 egg yolk recipes.

    Use the yolks first and store the whites covered in the fridge (or freeze) to make macarons, meringues, teacakes and more egg white recipes.

    For a lot more, as not many here using eight, see all egg yolk recipes.

    • cup of lemon ice cream with strawberries
      Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • pasta bowl of egg noodles tossed in olive oil, butter, garlic, herbs and garlic
      Fresh Alsatian Egg Noodles (Pâtes d'Alsace)
    • scoops of light chestnut coloured ice cream topped with candied chestnuts
      Chestnut Vanilla Ice Cream (Glace aux Marrons)

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    Enjoy reliable French recipes for real home kitchens - seasonal family food, macarons and desserts with less unnecessary sugar and more flavour.

    I’m Jill Colonna, a Scottish-French author and home cook, living and cooking in Paris for 30+ years. In 2010, I wrote one of the first macaron cookbooks in English.

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