🥚 Scotch Eggs 🥚

🐓Nothing like Scottish eggs🐓

A Scotch egg is a egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried.

The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first instance of the name as 1809, in an edition of Maria Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery. The recipe appeared in the first edition of the same book in 1805. They did not, at that time, have a breadcrumb layer, although by 1861 Isabella Beeton suggested this as an option