Press Release
Food & Drink notes
Thursday 23rd November 2006
First in the pecking order: Quails are cute and their eggs are beautiful. But, as you wouldn’t dream of buying eggs from battery-farmed hens, so quails deserve to be reared humanly too. Clarence Court’s quails’ eggs claim to be the first from birds that are not just truly free range but free to fly. They can run around, hop and flap about, and breathe in the Atlantic air at their home near the Cornish coast.They’re a fiddle to shell, but let everyone do it themselves. Boil the eggs for no more than a couple of minutes (tip: put them in a sieve or fryer basket, lower into boiling water and lift them out together) and run them under cold water. Clarence Court quails’ eggs are £2.99 for 12 from Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Harvey Nichols.