{"id":122,"date":"2018-09-02T20:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/?p=122"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:52:37","slug":"scotch-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/2018\/09\/02\/scotch-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotch Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 12\/22<\/p>\n

I have now changed to deep frying these without baking them in the oven.<\/p>\n

The eggs are added to boiling water for 6 minutes and then lifted out into ice cold water.<\/p>\n

Once the egg is made I heat around 6cm oil in a large saucepan until it reaches 160\u00b0c. Without a meat thermometer this is when breadcrumbs turn golden in 10s.<\/p>\n

I then fry them for 8 minutes.<\/p>\n

This means that they stay nice and gooey inside.<\/p>\n

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So recently I got a lot of duck eggs in to make Nixon specials when I had a lot of visitors over. However…. said visitors didn’t get up early enough to have them before they left so I needed to decide how to use up the eggs.<\/p>\n

As such I decided to have a try at making scotch eggs. I don’t have a deep fat fryer but one of my friends has been making them by shallow frying them and then putting them in the oven, so I decided to try this way.<\/p>\n

I started off with 6 duck eggs, 12 sausages (6 Cumberland and 6 Lincolnshire), 1 chicken egg, some plain flour and some bread crumbs.<\/p>\n

To start with I boiled the 6 duck eggs for around 7 minutes. Then peeled them.<\/p>\n

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I then squeezed out two sausages worth of sausage meat per egg.<\/p>\n

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You then need to flatten the meat and wrap it around the egg.<\/p>\n

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This then needs lightly dusting with the flour.<\/p>\n

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Then dipped in the beaten chicken egg.<\/p>\n

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And then into the breadcrumbs.<\/p>\n

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Next is to fry them. I did this in around 2cm of oil in a wok. I managed to comfortably do 3 at once.<\/p>\n

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Turn until brown and crispy all over.<\/p>\n

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Now they need to go in the over for around 30 mins at 180 degrees C. I lined the bottom of the oven tray with kitchen roll and then grease proof paper to soak up any excess oil.<\/p>\n

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I have to say, I’m pretty proud of the result and they tastes amazing.<\/p>\n

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And out of the two types of sausages, I think the Lincolnshire works best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 12\/22 I have now changed to deep frying these without baking them in the oven. The eggs are added to boiling water for 6 minutes and then lifted out into ice cold water. Once the egg is made I heat around 6cm oil in a large saucepan until it reaches 160\u00b0c. Without a meat thermometer this is when breadcrumbs...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}