Anybody here ever made Scotch Eggs?

[PotatoHouse]

I've always wanted to try making them but I thought I would ask for suggestions first. So, any recommendations about making Scotch Eggs?

[Strangewine]

There is an easy to follow recipe in The Joy of Cooking. They're pretty easy to make and delicious. They're also featured in the original The Office. Classic.

[ipsedixit]

Having your mise an place is critical.

[wyogal]

I've also baked them. (I also bake my meatballs)

[The Professor]

I make them fairly regularly.
Main thing I've learned is to have a proportion of bread crumbs, cracker meal, or other starch in the sausage meat mixture...it helps the meat to keep its shape and not shrink away from the egg.
Also, don't overcook them in the fryer...the meat coating really doesn't take all that long to cook through. Try to keep the temperature of the oil constant at around 350°F and don' t fry them for more than 8 minutes or so, otherwise the meat dries out.
I love these things...a mixed green salad on the side, and a bit of Branston pickle along with it. Heaven.

[JungMann]

Adding binding to the sausage mixture is key. My first forays into Scotch eggs went awry because I didn't think to add binding to the sausage, which slipped off in the fryer.

Soft-boiled, the eggs are a real treat. Also try using panko for the coating if you want a sharp textural contrast when you bite in.

[mickeygee]

I've made them twice, so by no means and expert, but I learned from my first time to keep the heat low when browning, so they don't burn to quick - otherwise my meat kept burning and falling off. Also, keeping the sausage layer thick enough helps, but too thick and again, I had trouble with it falling off.

But yum!

[todao]

The basic formula is fairly standard. Eggs. sausage, flour, bread crumbs. How you assemble the ingredients and whether or not you add herbs/spices/sauces depends on your style. You can wrap the hard boiled egg in the sausage, roll it and fry it or just brown one side of a sausage patty and turn it over to brown the other side and cook an egg on top; it's fun to experiment.
Another style of "Scotch Eggs" involves simply tearing a hole in the center of a slice of bread and breaking an egg in the hole while the bread is fried in a pan with butter. I grew up on those (Scotch Irish family - my dad called them Camel Neck Sandwiches) and they were a favorite breakfast treat for me.

[CanadaGirl]

We called those sandwiches "toad in the hole"

[BabsW]

We call them popeyes lol

[chefj]

Interesting, I know toad in a hole as a Yorkshire pudding sort of dish with sausages and a brown sauce with onion.
And the egg in a fried toast as "Hobo Eggs"

[ipsedixit]

Another style of "Scotch Eggs" involves simply tearing a hole in the center of a slice of bread and breaking an egg in the hole while the bread is fried in a pan with butter. I grew up on those (Scotch Irish family - my dad called them Camel Neck Sandwiches) and they were a favorite breakfast treat for me.
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As others have said, that's Told in the Hole -- at least if you are French.