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Show Popularity of Frozen Eggs Fast Increasing While at one time practically all eggs kept in Pennsylvania cold storage stor-age warehouses were "in shell," several sev-eral million pounds of eggs "out of shell" have been reported in storage each year during the past few years, according to the Pennsylvania Department, De-partment, of Agriculture. On June 30, 102R, the cold storage report for the state showed 4,057.000 pounds of eggs out of shell, in storage, just ten times more than were in storage on the corresponding cor-responding date in 1914. The increasing popularity of the frozen eggs is explained by the bureau bu-reau of markets as follows : "Tn the spring when eggs are plentiful, surplus sur-plus eggs are purchased by breaking establishments which break and place the eggs in containers to be frozen as whole eggs, egg yolks, or egg whites for the use of the baking industry. in-dustry. After being frozen solid, the eggs are kept at a temperature ranging rang-ing from zero to five degrees below. These are then made available to bakers, bak-ers, at any time during the year. Many bakers report that these eggs give the most satisfactory results when kept in a frozen condition for about threa I months." |