SCOTCH EGG .....and salad

Had a lazy day at home. Managed to cross a few things of my " to do list ".  A new portable Tv was delivered a few days ago and I set it up this afternoon.  The TV is working fine but the  stand is wobbly.  I put it together as per the instructions but the screws don't seem long enough to make it steady. I will have to scratch around in the garage to find some longer ones.  Hate it when things don't go to plan.

Last Monday at my slimming group taster night someone had made scotch eggs so I decided to have a go at making some for my tea.  They turned out OK I think. I used pork mince to cover the eggs.  I don't think I have made scotch eggs since I was at school and we made them in a Domestic Science lesson. 

I started wondering why they are called Scotch Eggs and where they originated..  Seems to be a few theories.

Scotch egg is actually a modern abbreviation of 'scotched' egg, which is it's true name. Scotching meat involves hacking it to either tenderise, or roughly mince, which refers to the sausage meat surrounding the egg. Something that is scotched is now generally regarded as being coated in breadcrumbs and fried, too.  Fortnums of London claims to have invented the modern aforementioned egg delicacy in 1738 as part of their picnic basket trade. It is also possible that scotch eggs were borrowed from Asia, where minced meat kofka and kebabs were common. The East India company gained a foothold in India a few generation before Fortnum’s claimed to have invented the item so there was more than enough time for the east Asian delicacy to have impressed the British enough to attempt imitations. Several local variations exist - the Manchester egg uses a pickled egg  wrapped in a mixture of pork meat and black pudding and the Worcester Egg uses an egg pickled in Worcestershire sauce and clad in a mixture of local sausage meat and white pudding.

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