Chandlers use to sell waxed eggs for rich Captains' stores.

"katysails" wrote in message
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Do not coat eggs in vaseline...vaseline is a petroleum product and will
permeate the egg and contaminate it. Eggshells are porous...wax, even
though it is also a petroleum product works because it sets up
impermeable....

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