In article .com>,
Bobo Bonobo(R) > wrote:

> On Aug 3, 11:14 am, Dan Abel > wrote:

> > My wife made a
> > white cake recently. She got several good comments. She got the recipe
> > out of the Joy of Cooking. It was a three tier cake (a wedding cake),
> > and she used 24 egg whites to serve about 130 people. She was the baker
> > at a two week church camp. The couple decided to get married during the
> > camp. My wife had to make dessert anyway, so that was dessert that
> > night.
> >
> > There was a lot of love at this camp (including the two weddings). I
> > think Damsel and Kili would have fitted in wonderfully. I won't say
> > anything more.
>
> Wow, think about all of those extra yolks.
> It always makes me feel kind of bad to waste egg whites. Wasting egg
> yolks would feel like the culinary equivalent of sin. I hope they
> were not wasted.


Coincidentally, the breakfast cook had asked me for suggestions for
breakfast the next morning. I jokingly suggested eggs benedict. She
thought that was a good idea and did it. At the time I didn't realize
that the cake only used egg whites.