"I first tried these when I was on a trip to England with the military many years ago. I was unaware of the the history of Scotch Eggs until I saw an episode about them in a Jas Townsend & Son YouTube video: http://youtu.be/IN03MUqeUa4. The first Scotch egg is claimed to have been invented by a London department store in the late 1730â?²s. To this day the Scotch Egg is a popular pub snack in British pubs.I adapted my recipe from the one referenced in the video and used breakfast sausage instead of ham...."