Old-Fashioned Egg Cake with Smoked Bacon

Name: Old-Fashioned Egg Cake with Smoked Bacon (Gammeldags Æggekage)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 12 eggs; chopped chives, to garnish; 4 tomatoes, thickly sliced; 100 ml (3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup) milk; 2 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour; ½ tsp pink Himalayan salt or sea salt; 24 thick rashers (slices) of smoked bacon

Gammeldags Æggekage

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cook Yourself Happy

By Caroline Fleming

Published 2017

About

This is a very traditional and classic Danish dish, but always a winner! It’s typically eaten for lunch, but I also really like it for dinner when I crave some real comfort food. Your butcher should be able to cut smoked streaky bacon extra thick, failing that, normal streaky bacon also works.

Ingredients

For the Egg Cake

24 thick rashers (slices) of smoked bacon
12 eggs
½

Europe
Denmark
Supper
Lunch
Nordic

Method

Fry the bacon rashers (slices) in a large frying pan (skillet) until they are golden and crispy. Leave to drain on kitchen towel. Discard the majority of the bacon fat in the pan (leaving about 2 tbsp).

Whisk the eggs together – I like to use all the egg whites and just 4 of the egg yolks. Add the salt and sieve the flour into the whisked eggs, then mix well. Lastly, add the milk and wh