Egg and Chips

jackieb

mummysaver wrote: »

Ooh you can't beat egg and chips! It's my all time favourite meal, closely followed by beans on toast! Sophistication is my middle name!

I'm surprised about people not having eaten it though, or having experienced a chip butty - guess all my friends were common as muck as well, and still are lol! x

I've never had a chip butty either, and have never made egg and chips in all my 20 odd years of marriage. I would have small suppers like that but my hubby doesn't seem to think it's a 'proper' meal. I do like an egg on top of my beans on toast though.

point3

Re: Frying in lard

The instructions on modern deep fat fryers are that you must NEVER use lard or dripping. Never one to stick to the rules, I filled mine up with beef dripping and then proceeded with the home-made chips (cut from Rooster potatoes). Mmmmm.

The trick is to fry twice. With veg oil you are advised to fry at 160 deg and then at 190 deg, but when using dripping food fries at a lower temp so both fryings at 160 degrees was perfect.

Lost2

Egg and Chips mmmm


The reason why people from all corners from UK had egg & chips, was because it was a cheep filling meal and people lived with in there means no credit cards then, and as for being at 5 - 5.30pm was because kids where in bed come 7 o'clock in the evening

zippychick

jackieb wrote: »

I've never had a chip butty either, and have never made egg and chips in all my 20 odd years of marriage. I would have small suppers like that but my hubby doesn't seem to think it's a 'proper' meal. I do like an egg on top of my beans on toast though.

Oh MY!:eek:Can you make it and throw some sausages on too, so it has meat for hubby to consider it a "meal". Highly recommended. Chip butties are just devine, droolworthy. Proper bread, proper butter.Chips lined up side by side. Mmmmm. :j

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

And who remembers the famous 'chips and egg' scene in Shirley Valentine?:rotfl:

First thing that came into my mind when i read this thread title! :rotfl:

jessicamb

egg & chips = ketchup
sausage, egg & chips = brown sauce

I'm a northerner

mummysaver

Olliebeak wrote: »

Chips and Egg featured regularly on our menu when I was a child - 50's/60's - my grandparents had chickens so we had our own eggs . We had it served with peas and Bread and Butter (preferably thin sliced) and it had to be brown sauce (HP or Daddies).

Baked Beans were for Beans on Toast and we NEVER had them as a vegetable.

Another cheapie meal was 'Specials' (slices of potato dipped in batter and deep fried) with chips - so, in effect, just fried, battered potato slices served with fried, chipped potatoes :rotfl: - all that cholesterol :eek:.

Don't think we ever had beans other than on toast as kids!

And I first had your specials cooked by my mother in law, she asked if I wanted scallops for my tea, being veggie I said no, and being a blunt Yorkshire woman she almost wet herself with laughter. They called them potato scallops when she was growing up, and her mum used to make them to stretch one potato round the 2 adults and 4 kids! Now that's what I call making food stretch!

Made them for my two younger dd's the other day, the older 2 were describing them and saying how good they were, couldn't believe the younger one's had never had them - now I'm plagued for the damned things! They taste good if done with onion rings in batter at the same time!

Now wishing I hadn't made cottage pie for dinner . . . . . :rolleyes::rotfl:

kjmtidea

I'm nearly dribbling reading this! We are having ham, egg and chips for dinner - i'm quite excited lol.
They will be oven chips though, I am far too much of a wimp to make proper chips.
Oh and i'm from the south and we will be having tomato ketchup with ours.

Olliebeak

mummysaver wrote: »

.....And I first had your specials cooked by my mother in law, she asked if I wanted scallops for my tea, being veggie I said no, and being a blunt Yorkshire woman she almost wet herself with laughter. They called them potato scallops when she was growing up, and her mum used to make them to stretch one potato round the 2 adults and 4 kids! Now that's what I call making food stretch!......./QUOTE]


Funnily enough, I've never known anybody else call them 'Specials' except my nan, dad and myself - BUT, although we lived in St.Helens (Lancs) my nan's family originated from Ireland VIA Yorkshire - so maybe they got it from there .

Our local chippy does them now and calls them 'scallops' as well .

mummysaver

Cripes, good job we don't have a local chippy at all, never mind one that does scallops, the kids would be down there constantly until their pocket money ran out! We do have a chippy about 8 miles away that does a mean pea fritter though!

Glamazon

I went out for a nice pub lunch the other day and I had Ham, Egg and Chips - my mum was mortified but when it came and said 'Oh, I bet you used to live on that when you lived with your Dad'. My stepdad looked sheepish and said 'Actually that's probably my influence' - as he used to cook it on the weekends when mum was out

runny egg and chips :drool: - don't mind which sauce red or brown, in fact as long as the egg is runny enough you don't need sauce!