Childhood Food: Chukky Eggs

[LuluBlakey1]

I grew up in the north-east of England, banks of the Tyne near to Newcastle. When I was little - say 3-about 7, I remember my dad used to make me a 'chukky egg' for my tea if my mam was out. It was a slightly soft boiled egg chopped up with salt, pepper and butter and served with hot buttered toast cut into soldiers. It was delicious. My dad used to call me his 'little chukky egg' as well. Not sure if it's a north-east thing. I make them for our DC now and they love them too. For me part of it is the memory of my dad .

Anyone else have a 'chukky egg' for tea? Or any other childhood meals you remember fondly?

My gran called soft boiled eggs with soldiers chucky eggs, she was from Newcastle.

Ah my lovely Nan used to make us chucky eggs in a cup, I still have them from time to time. Pre-dated the computer game, this would have been in the 70s, chucky egg was a fairly common expression (Lancs).

Botched eggs in our household, Cumbria!

Guggy in Ireland

This is how my dad always did them- white set, yolk not quite but not completely runny. The butter melted with the heat and softened it up again. It's delicious.

I'm really glad to hear it was wider than the north-east. Seems to have been Scotland and the north of England. Nice to hear the alternative names in some places.

I grew up in Liverpool and mum would make me a Chucky egg! Not thought about them for ages!

Chucky eggs in NI too 😊

@LuluBlakey1 it was my nana who made chukky eggs for us, exactly as you described. Lovely warm memories.

I grew up in the North East.

Have you tried nearly hard boiled egg, decanted from shell, chopped with a couple of drops of soy sauce and toasted sesame oil?

Northern Ireland but called Eggy Cup in my area.

Which bit did you grow up in?

No but I will. 😁

Chucky Egg for us too, West Cumbria! Can't believe I've never made this for my DC! They're getting their first Chucky Egg as teens in the morning... I'm going to try the soy and sesame version too. Thanks for posting OP!

Chucky egg in Liverpool too. Mine was a boiled egg though with soldiers.

Chukky eggs in my house to, in fact my youngest whose in his 30s still asks for them if unwell. I absolutely hate making them, it's the getting them out of the shells that irritates, so recently I tried poaching two eggs then chopping up in cup with butter and.........he couldn't tell the difference!!😉

I still have them but just call them egg in a cup.

Chucky egg was just a soft-boiled egg to us. South Yorkshire. Chucky as in short for chicken, I think.

Central Scotland, 1980s. My Mum called it “Egg beaten up in a cup”. But it wasn’t a beaten egg, it was as you describe- soft boiled, scooped out and mashed in with butter. Ours included white bread in little chunks mixed in, never toasted.

The “beaten up” bit confused my Dad once when he was left on tea duty and I asked for one. And he didn’t know to add the bread and butter because that wasn’t part of the name. I basically got scrambled egg in a mug and was not impressed!

I also played Chucky Egg obsessively on my ZX Spectrum.

Egg in a cup. Happy childhood memories

So basically a similar concept to egg Mayo. Only instead of the eggs being cold they're still hot and instead of Mayo you use butter?

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It was a game for the Sinclair spectrum in the 80s!

It was on BBC and Acorn, too! I remember playing it...

My grandad used to bring eggs in from his friend, who had loads of chickens on a plot in Backworth ( OP! ) and he called them chuckie eggs, but I don't remember a specific meal called that.

I still love a soft boiled egg and marmite soldiers. Growing up, mum always gave us Heinz tomato soup if we were poorly.

My son used to refer to having
“egg in a pot” which was a boiled egg (and soldiers) in the same egg cup that I used in my childhood!