Baked Scotch Eggs

## Book Reference

Caramel Pecan Roll Murder

DO NOT preheat oven until you have read Hannah’s 1st Note.

#### Hannah’s 1st Note

*There is a bit of preparation you must do before you can make these Baked Scotch Eggs. The day before you plan to make them, hard-boil 4 large eggs. (Or 8 large eggs if you plan to double this recipe.) Once the eggs are hard-boiled, place them in the refrigerator overnight to chill. Baked Scotch Eggs are much easier to make if the hard-boiled eggs are chilled*.

### Ingredients

* 4 large eggs, hard-boiled
* 12 oz. bulk pork sausage (I used Farmer John’s Premium Original pork sausage, it comes in a chub)
* 1 teaspoon dried, minced onion (you can find this in the spice aisle)
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (pack it down in the cup when you measure it)
* 3/4 cup Progresso Italian Style Bread Crumbs
* 1 fresh egg, beaten (just crack it into a glass and beat it up with a fork)

### Directions

* When you’re ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees F., rack in the middle position.
* While your oven is preheating, prepare your baking sheet by lining a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with parchment paper.
* Take your hard-boiled eggs out of the refrigerator.
* Peel the eggs, making sure no shell remains.
* In a large bowl, mix the 12 ounces of pork sausage with the teaspoon of dried, minced onion.
* Sprinkle on a teaspoon of salt and mix everything up together.
* Divide the sausage mixture into 4 (four) equal portions.
* Make each portion into a flat patty.
* Place 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour in a flat bowl. Spread out the flour in the bowl. (When I made these, I used a pie plate to hold the flour.)
* Roll each peeled, hard-boiled egg in flour to coat it.
* Place one floured egg on one of the sausage patties.
* Shape the sausage around the egg, covering the egg completely.
* Repeat for the other eggs until all of them are coated with sausage.
* If you haven’t done so already, crack the fresh egg into a bowl and whip it up with a fork.
* If there is flour left over in the flat bowl, dump it out and replace it with Progresso Italian Style Bread Crumbs.
* Dip each sausage-coated egg into the beaten egg mixture, coating the outside with beaten egg.
* Quickly roll the resulting creation in the breadcrumbs, making sure it is coated completely.
* Place the finished hard-boiled egg on the parchment-lined baking sheet.
* Repeat with the other eggs, leaving an inch or two between the eggs.
* Bake your eggs at 400 degrees F. for 35 to 40 minutes or until the sausage has been cooked.
* Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let your Baked Scotch Eggs cool on the baking sheet for at least 10 minutes before serving them to your guests.

Yield: 4 delicious treats or appetizers that everyone will enjoy.

#### Hannah’s 2nd Note

*If you have trouble dipping the sausage-coated eggs in the egg wash, you can brush the egg wash on the outside of the sausage. Be sure to coat the eggs with the wash completely*.

#### Hannah’s 3rd Note

*Rather than rolling the eggs in the bread crumbs, you can place the egg in the flat bowl with the bread crumbs and sprinkle them over the whole surface*.

## Conversion Charts

See Baking Conversion Chart for non-USA baking conversions.