SC - Scotch Eggs

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/7/2000 10:29:50 AM Eastern 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?>>

Hmm. When I made them, I worked with totally hard cooked eggs.  In fact, we 
bought them hard cooked.
 
 <<2.How thick a coating of ground sausage do you give each egg?>>

Just enough to cover it, as I recall.
 
<< 3 Is another name for Scotch Eggs:  "hedgehogs"? >>

Nope.  Hedgehogs are a pork meatball with ginger, made with slivered almond 
"spines" sticking out all over.  OK, in proper period fashion, it's a pig's 
stomach stuffed with the pork and ginger mixture, then has spines stuck 
through the stomach.  But I've never actually made one or had one served that 
way.  No eggs in hedgehogs, hardcooked or otherwise.

Brangwayna Morgan