Someone asked me recently what boiled eggs and soldiers are. You know, google is very good for answering questions like that (see?! :)). Anyway, here’s a photo from the 13th October. I love my boiled eggs very soft – more liquid than solid – they have to be fairly soft to facilitate the successful dunking of the soldiers. Slice the top off an egg, crack a little black pepper over the top, then dunk, eat, repeat.
You know, I’m one of those people who can’t stand dunking biscuits in my tea because I loathe (absolutely loathe with a passion!) soggy biscuits, but I love soggifying toast in soft egg. Are they comparable experiences, you think?
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I totaly hate soft eggs and I love soggyfied biscuits ;)
In french we say “des goûts et des couleurs…” meaning tastes are personal things…
Well said, plume!
finally someone gets it! i loathe anything soggy (bread dunk in soup? a no, no. biscuits dunk in tea? a no, no again!) – but love the whole sldiers/ egg thing. ha, talk about coincidences :)
that is the coolest little candle stick egg cup. i like simple little understated peices like that. all white mixing bowls, utensils, tea pots things like that.
that said, i LOVE soft rich egg yolk on toast, but i just cant do the soggy egg white. no toast soldiers for me.
I absolutely loathe egg that isn’t completely cooked. However, i recently learnt that sunny sides up are actually pretty ok when eaten with toast (so i can pretend i’m not eating runny goo). So i can see how that would work with soft boiled egg too.
I like my eggs best
1. with indomie, whether soup or dry
2. scrambled, with crisp fried bacon, hash browns, sausages, pancakes and a glass of orange juice
;)
Had a team breakfast at Miss Maud’s in the city the other day. $23 for the smorgasbord, had 5 absolutely massive servings (must have eaten about 15 eggs scrambled alone), didn’t have to eat until lunchtime the next day. Phew, that was a workout!
Egg and Soldiers. Huevo con soldaditos, pero huevo de avestruz!
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Definitely not. A soft boiled egg with toasty soldiers is food of the gods. The gods!
andreea,
Heh. I hadn’t thought about bread in soup. I can tolerate bread in soup if I dunk it and eat it straight away so I don’t have time to think about its sogginess. I don’t mind croutons if they aren’t completely soggified and still have a little crunch. Jac can’t stand croutons.
Jac,
I like the soldiers because I can control how soggy the toast will end up. If I have the egg ON the toast it will keep soggifying as I eat, ewww. :)
C,
$23 for five massive servings from the smorgasbord? That’s very impressive! Hah. I love eggs with Indomie too, and with all the other fry-up goodies you mentioned.
Extremecook,
Now that’s a bit too much egg for me!
Chubbypanda,
Point noted. :)
I recently moved to Wales and many people have mentioned eggs and soldiers…what is the story behind it? Why are they called soldiers? I am a devout dunker of all things, especially my toast in milk, or cookies..yum, yum…I am going to surprise my new husband tomorrow and give him eggs and soldiers..thanks for the cooking times!
Wyhy are they called soldiers? And since when? and in which countries?
jackie and Brydon,
As far as I know we call them eggs and soldiers here in Australia, and they also do in the United Kingdom. No idea why. Do you know the story behind the name of all the foods you eat? :)
Have you had eggs in a basket?
Re: the origin of “eggs and soldiers”, I can’t say for sure. But growing up here in Canada, my mother called soft-boiled eggs “humpty-dumpty eggs”, so we did too (although my understanding now is that was specific to our family, my mother’s father was British). When I heard that the British call their slices of toast for dipping into soft-cooked eggs soldiers, I could only assume it’s part of the same homage to the nursery rhyme. “All the king’s soldiers and all the king’s men…”