Scotch eggs have definitely been on the brain this weekend. In honour of the Joneses being in town I thought I would try out a new recipe on them. So this morning I knocked up some Scotch eggs for lunch.
I have to be honest it didn’t go entirely to plan! Having successfully soft boiled the eggs I then proceeded to ruin 6 of them whilst peeling off the shells. I don’t know if I was being particularly heavy handed or if the eggs weren’t as fresh as normal but whatever it was I ended up with a lot of yolk on my hands and had a minor sense of humour failure. Fortunately for me my housemate came to the rescue and not only picked up some more eggs but ended up peeling the little devils for me.
Today’s Scotch eggs were made using both duck and chicken eggs and they were both equally as good as each other. The only slight plus in favour of the duck eggs they proved to be slightly more robust when it came to peeling and were the only two eggs that I actually managed to peel successfully.
For the meaty shell I used a combination of sausage meat and haggis, which helped the haggis to become more malleable for shaping around the egg whilst retaining its earthy beautifully seasoned flavour! I am pleased to report after the initial egg peeling disaster all of the Scotch eggs once deep fried had retained their runny yolk – WIN!!!
Now then I have to stress that the even though I had what can only be described as an utter fail this morning – this was highly unusual! Please do not let this put you off making these little beauties as it really is very straightforward! Enjoy.
Antonia Cooks 