Deviled Eggs II - The Magic Continues

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Yesterday I told you about the first 6 eggs I made into Deviled Eggs. I tried some different stuff with the others. 

With the second group I wanted to use Worcestershire Sauce to substitute for some of the tart and salty.  The problem with liquid W. Sauce is that it turns everything brown. But, did you know you could get W. Sauce in powder form?  Here is what I have now. I got this on Amazon and they have other sizes and brands. 


This second set of eggs used much the same ingredients as the first six, but instead of the salt and pepper, I added a teaspoon of the W. Powder. I checked the blend and it still needed a little extra salt. The flavor is very similar to the original, but it has an added depth. There are some onion/garlic notes. 

Here is a picture and you can see that they are slightly different in color, but not brown. 


With the third set of eggs I decided to use avocado as the creamy element. I knew that they would tend to brown overnight, so I also added 1/8 tsp of granulated citric acid. I added a little bit of pickle juice and some sugar, but I knew that the citric acid was going to make it sour. Since I had really limited the pickle juice, it was still too dry so I went looking for some kind of liquid sweetener. Honey would have been my go-to, but we just moved and cleaned out the pantry of anything that might attract bugs to our stored things! I don’t have any honey yet. 

What I did have was some sweetened condensed milk from making vanilla yogurt. I added 2 teaspoons of this to the mixture and the consistency was perfect. The sweetness was good and helped curb the sour. I had never tried using SCM this way, but I will remember it in the future. 

Here is a picture of these and you can see that the color on these is very different. The yellows are green! I just hope they are stay green and don’t brown! (note: the picture at the top is from this morning. So after 12 hours in the fridge – still green‼ Win‼)


So all together I ended up with 34 deviled eggs. That’s really only 2 eggs a person which isn’t really enough for snacking, so I’ll leave them in the fridge until supper time. Hopefully I won’t do my other favorite Deviled Egg trick – forget to put them out‼ 


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