How to cook scotch eggs - in pictures

2. Chop the lot in a blender. Chunky is good for sausages but an absolute nightmare to wrap round a small, softish egg so go for a quite smooth finish

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3. Carefully place room temperature, medium size eggs in a pan of boiling water. After four and a half minutes, whip them out with a slotted spoon and plunge into iced water

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4. Peel the egg incredibly carefully. You may want to do this while they're stil immersed in the ice water. Roll out your sausage meat between sheets of greasproof paper. I've also rolled out a slice of black pudding to add an experimental extra layer to one egg

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7. … then dip the meat-encased egg into a beaten egg wash, roll in the crumbs and repeat

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8. Fry in oil 3cm deep at 180C for 5 mins then hold in a 180C oven for another 5. Serve, while still hot, to rapturous applause

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Fried would wait a full week for a good meal.

Have to eat the food before the trolls show up

This one looks really good.......... -30 secodns on that egg and totally cool.

This looks really really really really good by the way.

Except when crack that thing open...... like to see the egg a little runnier but dang.

It's like finger food.