Waitrose Lay an Egg-ceptional World Record at Rocco Fortes Browns Hotel

Waitrose, in accord with Rocco Forte’s Brown’s Hotel, has helped accomplish the better recorded Scotch egg. The bazaar alternation supplied appropriate absolute Clarence Court Ostrich eggs to actualize the compact mélange which advised in at 6.2kg, the agnate to a bowling ball.

In adjustment to breach the antecedent record, Clarence Court alleged aloft Lee Streeton, Executive Chef at Rocco Forte’s Brown’s Hotel. Using a amount of beginning groceries including 1.7kg ostrich egg, 4kg of Gloucester Old Spot sausage-meat, 940g of haggis and 800g of breadcrumbs for the coating, the absolute affable action took added than eight hours, with ninety account abandoned spent baking the egg.

The ultimate barbecue food, the Scotch egg is a prime archetype of authentic, indigenous, affable British produce. Contrary to accepted belief, it was not invented by the Scots but rather the London aliment boutique Fortnum & Mason, who aboriginal affected this carriageable adaptation of sausage and eggs in 1738.

Clarence Court Director, Lisa Rowe, said, “As industry innovators, we are captivated to be able to plan with Rocco Forte’s Brown’s Hotel to aftermath this super-sized snack. The ostrich egg is the latest – and better - accession to our range, so it alone seemed applicable to let Lee Streeton accept a bit of fun with it and baker up something rather altered for The Albemarle abstraction trolley.”

Streeton added, “Genuine Scotch eggs epitomise good, honest food, so what could be bigger than authoritative an added ample adaptation application the best of British? As a chef that is amorous about sourcing bounded fresh foods, it has been astronomic fun to re-create this much-loved barbecue basic and best a aliment that has been allotment of our history for hundreds of years.”

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Waitrose sells over 1,700 amoebic products, over 60 altered types of angle and seafood and added than 100 altered cheeses. The aliment boutique aswell enjoys one of the best reputations for ambidextrous with farmers and suppliers

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