scotch eggs

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cramorra

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1,664 posts

234 months

Wednesday 10th October 2012
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nicely cooked on the outside - ideally slightly runny or at least waxy egg yolk inside?
Practically how you always want them and never get them- worth making yourself?
How to?

skwdenyer

16,178 posts

239 months

Wednesday 10th October 2012
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cramorra said:
nicely cooked on the outside - ideally slightly runny or at least waxy egg yolk inside?
Practically how you always want them and never get them- worth making yourself?
How to?
After many years of exasperation over these things, I had my wife start making them. She now sells them as a part of her food business, fresh, with a batch every Friday. At the expense of a plug, if anyone is interested in trying one I can let you have details - mail order is a possibility (although not tried yet)! Hand-crafted for just £2 each in central London... yolk just on the 'turn' from runny.

To fulfill my order, she went through about 20 different egg suppliers / varieties before settling upon the 'perfect' free-range egg, not to mention countless formulations of the coating, before settling upon the 'right' compromises; I can't say I hated the experimentation smile

I realise that doesn't help you to make them yourself; my wife won't tell me her recipe, so I can't pass it on here - sorry - but they are, as my six-year-old would say, 'yum'.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 10th October 2012
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In a bowl, Lincolnshire assuages (800g) squeezed out of skin, add 1 minced onion (fine on a grater) 2 apples minced, 3 garlic minced cloves, some mace, pepper and parsley.(to taste, mace is strong thou, try it first on small batch to get right quantity to taste, it adds a good depth against the fatiness of the meat)

wrap around hard-boiled eggs to your taste, coat in egg yolks (about 4-6 depending on diameter) and then bread crumbs (undyed) and deep fat fry until brown, and finish in oven over wire mesh ( drain fatty fat off) to cook fully (depending on sausage meat thickness) I like them thick thou....

try Panko (Japanese style breadcrumbs) for a change. I have also used 50/50 sausage meat to beef mince but it is personnel preference, but it works well.


Edited by The Spruce goose on Thursday 11th October 00:05

Uriel

3,244 posts

250 months

XJSJohn

15,959 posts

218 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Bastids, thanks for reawakening a craving I have been suppressing for quite a while!!!


Huntsman

8,028 posts

249 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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I LOVE SCOTCH EGGS!!

SHutchinson

2,040 posts

183 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Recently I seem to have eaten a lot of scotch eggs that have also included black pudding.

They're delicious. The most recent one was from the stall of this place http://www.thebroadchare.co.uk/ at the Urban night feast street food festival in Newcastle.

marksx

5,052 posts

189 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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SHutchinson said:
Recently I seem to have eaten a lot of scotch eggs that have also included black pudding.
I think you have just described my perfect snack! Now to find some!

Uriel

3,244 posts

250 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Get them here: http://www.handmadescotcheggs.co.uk/

Be careful though...could be very easy to get carried away ordering from that place! Check out the Chelsea Tractors.

Mr Roper

12,985 posts

193 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Scotch eggs?

Love 'em!




Mobile Chicane

20,737 posts

211 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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A local(ish) Surrey pub, The Percy Arms in Chilworth, makes Scotch Eggs in boerewors.

y2blade

56,029 posts

214 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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XJSJohn said:
Bastids, thanks for reawakening a craving I have been suppressing for quite a while!!!
This^^^^

yum

cramorra

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1,664 posts

234 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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some of those sound excellent - will grow fat in trying, though.....

arfur

3,871 posts

213 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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There is a really nice cheese shop on Jermyn Street in Central Ldn.

They sell a range of yummy scotch eggs ...

I know this does not help with the making of them, but I'm now thinking about walking over St James Park to go and get a couple for lunch !!!

zygalski

7,759 posts

144 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Uriel said:
Yeah, the clingfilm is the key ingredient!

nadger

1,411 posts

139 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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I LOVE scotch eggs, but am desperate to try a Manchester egg!
http://manchesteregg.com/
yum

SMGB

790 posts

138 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Iry this, jump on bike, pedal up to local shops, enter R S Troutts local family owned biz, buy as many locally hand made ones as you like for £1-90.
They are man sized for that price, we eat one between us.
There are 2 in the fridge that we got on the way home this morning. Oh go on then, here they are smile

skinny

5,269 posts

234 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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shop bought scotch eggs put me of for 31 years, with the bizarre bright orange soggy coating, the cheap sausage meat, and the egg that had been so overcooked the yolk was all grey and furry.

now i've been to a nice pub in watlington and the hinds head and tried proper scotch eggs, i love them, (as you would expect of anything made of sausages and egg!)

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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scotch egg cooking competition would sound like fun?

Huntsman

8,028 posts

249 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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The Spruce goose said:
scotch egg EATING competition would sound like fun?