I’m not exactly sure when we started talking about these at work. Either Marquis or Mike brought them up one day. These consist of hard-boiled eggs wrapped in sausage and deep fried. Doesn’t that just sound absolutely amazing?
So I tried making them today. They turned out to be much larger than I expected. This is partly due to the fact we only had the jumbo eggs and the fact the sausage wasn’t completely thawed in the middle so there were some larger chunks of meat. The deep frying was a little tricky because we didn’t have enough oil for the eggs to be completely submerged. We ended up putting some of them in the microwave for a tiny bit after we pulled them out of the oil.
It’s probably hard to tell exactly how big they ended up. I’d say they were slightly smaller than my fist if that helps. They were also quite filling. The “traditional” recipe doesn’t call for cheese or ketchup to be added, but I couldn’t really resist. With or without, these are really quite tasty. in the last two pictures you’ll see I melted some New York Sharp Cheddar on top of half an egg along with a little sauce.
Caution!: Eating Scottish Eggs may force you to take a Thanksgiving style nap afterward.
That… that’s amazing. I know what we’ll be doing on my trip out in January.
I think I can arrange something
We’ve got a restaurant in town that has Scotch Eggs as an appetizer… They’re SOOOOO good and hard to resist. My wife doesn’t like them and there are far too many in the appetizer for me to eat alone, so I often don’t get them. But, whenever we’re there with a larger group, I pretty much can’t not order them.
There’s an English pub close to us now that serves them as an appetizer as well. Haven’t had them, but the guy at work always raved about them. I figured I needed to check them out.
how long can these things be kept? And how would you store them can someone plz tell me!
Trudy, I don’t know a whole lot about these except that they taste amazingly good. Here’s what wikipedia has to say - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_eggs. We at ours right away with the exception of a couple leftovers. I just popped those into a plastic container until I ate them the next day.