Processing and Marketing Duck Products and By-Products
There are high demand for duck eggs and meat. Ducks egg can be sold fresh, salted and boiled as balut and penoy. Dressed ducks are also fried like chicken.
Balut Making
Balut is mostly processed in incubators. Electric incubators are used to incubate the eggs of ducks. After three days of incubation, the eggs are examined to check whether the eggs are fertile or not. Unfertile eggs are separated and made into penoy. The eggs mostly incubated for thirteenth days to get the desired embryo. These eggs are boiled and sold as balut.
Salted Eggs
Eggs can be salted by the following steps correctly.
Ingredients:
12 ducks eggs
3 cups water 3 cups salt
Procedures:
Balut Making
Balut is mostly processed in incubators. Electric incubators are used to incubate the eggs of ducks. After three days of incubation, the eggs are examined to check whether the eggs are fertile or not. Unfertile eggs are separated and made into penoy. The eggs mostly incubated for thirteenth days to get the desired embryo. These eggs are boiled and sold as balut.
Salted Eggs
Eggs can be salted by the following steps correctly.
Ingredients:
12 ducks eggs
3 cups water 3 cups salt
Procedures:
- Clean the eggs and place them in a wide jar.
- Mix the salt and water and boil. Pour the cooked mixture in the jar with the eggs. See to it that all the eggs are immersed in the solution. The eggs usually stay afloat. Weigh them down by using plastic bag of water. Cover the jar with clean cloth and set it aside for fourteen days.
- Remove the eggs from the jar after fourteen days and drain well.
- Boil the eggs well.
- Cool the eggs.
- Salted eggs are colored red to distinguish them from penoy and to make them attractive. The eggs are now ready to sell or ready for eating.
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Source: TLE IV Book