The Great British Fried Egg

One of the first ways people cooked eggs was by baking them whole in the ashes of the fire. Or they were fried in fat in a container of some sort, probably much as they are today. But what makes the perfect fried egg? Every book you read will give you a different recipe, some telling you just to use lard for frying, or groundnut oil, bacon fat, butter or a combination of all. Some like their eggs sunny side up, others like them turned. At the end of the day, it’s up to you.

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