How did they store eggs before a fridge was invented?
It wasn’t much of a problem when I was young, because the egg ration was one egg per person, a week. Sometimes this dropped to one a fortnight. When eggs became more plentiful, we kept them in a dish in the larder which was a tall cupboard under the stairs, and one of the shelves was a marble slab which was relatively cool. If we managed to get extra eggs during the War (my grandmother kept chickens in her back garden) we preserved them in Isinglass. My mother bought her first fridge on H.P. around 1955 – it was a 4 cu foot and cost £250.
