Extra: Scotch Egg: The Gooey Half-Boiled Egg

The hand-cranked mincer I bought from the Online Supermarket after seeing it: using this, I could make ground meat, so it was cause for great celebration.

I was grinding meat today, too, but I got a little too into it and I might have made too much.

The mixed ground bloody horn-bull and orc meat that I had left on hand: saving it for use later was an option, but with how much I already had, I thought I might as well use it in a dish where ground meat is the star, and not in some stir-fry or something.

I’ve already made Hamburg steaks and Hamburg steak cutlets... so what should I do now......

What about croquettes?

Croquettes were good, but my favorites were the ones with more potato in them.

And if I did that, then Fel would most likely complain. No, not most likely — certainly. He’d be all, “There’s too little meat.”

If croquettes are no good, what should I make?

As I looked through my Item Box to grab some kind of hint, I noticed the eggs I had left over from yesterday. Eggs, huh......

Eggs and ground meat, eggs and ground meat, eggs and ground meat............ Ah! What about scotch eggs, the one that uses a whole egg? Yeah, that’s good. Or rather, that’s all I can think about now.

The egg inside wasn’t hard boiled, it was a gooey softboiled egg. I imagined cutting the scotch egg, and seeing all the gooey yolk leak out. Yeah, yeah! This is perfect. It sounds delicious.

Right, it’s decided. Tonight’s dinner is scotch egg. With that decided, I first need to get the ingredients from the Online Supermarket, don’t I? I still have a pack of eggs, but that probably won’t be enough, so I’ll get more.

I put several cartons of eggs into the cart. Also, the ground meat that wraps the egg is basically the same as a Hamburg steak, so I need onions and panko and milk, right? Nutmeg is the sort of thing I’d put in if I had it, but I can get it right away, so might as well. I added nutmeg into the cart as well and checked out.

Right afterward, the sparkling particles gathered together, and a familiar cardboard box materialized in front of my eyes. It happened every time, but I couldn’t help but be curious how it worked.

Well, leaving that aside, let’s get to cooking now that I have the ingredients.

First up is the egg, right?

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So that the egg would become easier to peel, I use a spoon to tap at the bottom of the egg (the flatter end) to put some cracks in it. I make sure to only do it lightly.

Normally, I’d use a safety pin or those egg-hole devices they sell at 100-yen shops. I have one of them at home, and they’re really convenient. But I don’t have one now, so I use a spoon to lightly put cracks in the egg.

Once that’s done, boil the egg normally. I want it softboiled, so the boiling time is short at about six minutes. I use a big pot to boil a lot of eggs at once. So that the yolk stays in the center while the eggs boil, I use cooking chopsticks to gently roll the eggs around in the pot. It’s a little extra trouble, but this step is important.

Once the eggs are done boiling, put them in cold water to get rid of the excess heat, and then start peeling.

Once the eggs are done, the ground meat is next. Just like with Hamburg steaks, put some panko in a bowl and soak with milk, and then add in the ground meat, minced onions, egg, salt and pepper, and nutmeg before mixing and kneading well.

Then, coat the soft-boiled eggs thinly with flour, and use the kneaded ground meat to wrap the egg in a bag-shape. After that, all that’s left is to coat in flour, eggs, and panko in that order, before frying it light brown in oil.

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Yeah, looks good.

When I tried cutting one in half as a test......

“Ooohhh.” The soft-boiled egg gooily leaked out.

It turned out pretty good. I thought, singing my own praises. I had managed to finish a really appetizing looking scotch egg.

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“Oh, there is an egg inside this. How perfectly delicious.”

《The yolk of the egg wraps everything in a really mellow taste. Yeah, it’s amazing.》

《So good—!》

It looked like the soft-boiled scotch egg went over well with Fel, Dora-chan, and Sui.

None of them were bothering with cutting it in half, and were instead eating them whole with some ketchup. Fel was even eating two or three at once.

Now then, I should eat too. First, put on some ketchup... Yep, it’s good.

I did a good job on this soft-boiled egg. And the acidity of the ketchup is mellow and brings it all together.

It was good, but I shouldn’t listen to Fel too much and start making only meat.

Thinking that I should eat some vegetables here too, I bought a salad using my skill.

When I recommended it to Fel and the others, Fel cleanly refused with a, “I do not need that kind of thing,” and both Dora-chan and Sui coldly refused with a, “No, I’m fine.”

Even if you’re all carnivores, eating only meat is no good.

Ah, that might be good with a scotch egg.

I bought some Tabasco to go with my share of salad and scotch egg and I immediately added the delivered Tabasco to the rest of my scotch egg. It would be way too spicy if I added too much, so I made sure to keep the amount down.

*Tap* *Tap*...... “Woah! I put on too much.”

“Hm? Too much of what?”

“This? It’s a spicy sauce.”

“Put some on for me, too.”

“It’s pretty strong, you sure?”

“Yes. It is fine. Hurry up.”

Fine, fine. I added some Tabasco to Fel’s scotch eggs as well.

By the way, neither Dora-chan nor Sui wanted any spice. Sui especially was bad with spice.

Now then, let’s get to enjoying this Tabasco-ed scotch egg, shall we?

“Woa~h, so spicy! Waterwaterwater!” I put on too much Tabasco, so when I tried to eat it, it was easy to guess that it was too much for me. Retrieving a PET bottle of water from my Item Box, I gulped it down.

“Hahhh— that was spicy. But still good.”

As I was drinking water, I could hear Fel’s cry. And then I could see him panting with his tongue out.

“It was spicy, right—? I told you.” I poured some water out onto a wooden plate and presented it to Fel. Fel quickly gulped the water down.

“Whew. My tongue is stinging. But still, that’s what makes it good.” After saying that, Fel, having not learned better, once again started eating the scotch egg with Tabasco on top.

《What do you mean by that? You just said it was too spicy...》 said Dora-chan with an exasperated expression, as he watched Fel eat more of the scotch egg.

《Sui hates spicy—! This is tasty as it is~.》 Saying so, Sui continued to chow down on its scotch egg with ketchup.

Geez, Fel... While chuckling to myself, I continued to scarf down my scotch egg.