SC - Scotch Eggs

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/7/2000 8:29:50 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:

<< 
 1.   Wrapping a 5-6 minute egg in ground beef / turkey sausage....
 How hard boiled is the egg at that point?  Wouldn't it just gush out, OR do 
 you just wrap very carfully & gingerly?>>
 In my opinion, an egg boiled 5-6 minutes is not only Hard boiled, it is very 
nearly  inedible.  It is best to put the eggs in cold water, bring it nearly 
to a boil, remove from the heat, cover, and let stand.  I usually let mine 
stand for 5-6 minutes for egg salad or potato salad.  For breakfast, I let 
them stand for about 3-4 minutes.  The beauty of this is that it is hard to 
get really overcooked eggs like this.  For Scotch Eggs, you could let them 
stand 10-15 minutes, be sure they were hard enough, and not worry about 
overcooking.

Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)