English Fried Eggs and a Gammon of Bacon
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Breakfast • Chicken • Pork |
Fried Eggs have a variety of doneness: sunny side up, over-easy, over-medium, or over-hard. Bacon has a wide varieties of doneness as well. So many they don't all have established names beyond: floopy, crispy and extra crispy. |
Servings & Worth: 1 person / 2 knuts |
Skill/Roll: +roll Cooking | Training: 1st Year Domestics Club, Private Training |
Ingredients: Rashers (Slices) of Bacon • Lard • Large Eggs • Salt & Pepper |
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Instructions
- To cook the bacon: heat skillet over medium high heat. Lay bacon in pan in single layer without touching each other. Let cook 2 minutes a side. After that go at 30 second intervals per side until doneness is achieved.
- Remove bacon from pan and put on kitchen towels or napkins and lightly pat to absorb excess grease.
- Keep 1 tablespoon of bacon grease/lard in pan, reduce heat to medium-low. Break eggs into small bowl. This is done so quality of egg can be checked. When grease sizzles in pan, carefully add egg. Add Salt and Pepper to taste.
- For sunny side up egg: Cook eggs for 4 minutes until white is firm and opaque.
- For over-easy egg: Cook eggs 3 minutes, gently flip with spatula cook 2 minutes more.
- For over-medium egg: Cook eggs 3 minutes, gently flip with spatula cook 2 minutes and 15 seconds more.
- For over-hard egg: Cook eggs 3 minutes, gently flip with spatula cook 2 minutes and 30 seconds more.
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