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?

In the North East of Scotland it was soup the first day and when you were well on the mend it was a tin of Grants mince and peas. I still think of it now.

I'm on an Alan Partridge binge at the moment and he mentions them!
Didn't have them in Yorkshire where I grew up.

Me too. I lived in W Yorks until I was almost 10.

I grew up with chucky eggs. Midlands. 70s.

You knew you were sick when you got, eggy cup, a quarter of hard boiled sweets and a bottle of lucozade, old style with the orange wrapper.

Londoner, but Mum was from the NE and she called soft boiled eggs, with dipping soldiers, Chucky Eggs and I still do!

Toast soldiers with dippy egg was the best at my nanna's house as she used real butter 😬

Scottish here too and it was egg in a cup. We had our main meal at lunch so egg in a cup was a popular teatime meal. When I couldn't eat soft boiled eggs (my favourite) when pregnant I found a hardboiled egg mashed up in a cup with loads of butter was a reasonable substitute.

Scottish mum here and we called it egg in a cup. I think we only had it when we weren't well.

Sorry forgot to say eggy cup, with old style lucozade and quarter of sweets also included a comic. Dublin.

Chucky eggs here from my Lincolnshire gran.

DH is Glaswegian and egg in a cup is a firm favourite, DCs love it too, I'm from Devon and had never heard of it before

I think I've heard guggy egg.

In practice, how does it differ from a poached egg eaten with salt and pepper, butter and bread? Which I eat all the time in normal life (Life is abnormal atm because I'm low-carbing so no bread, but one day . . . .)

We call them cuppy eggs too. My mother was from Lancashire.

ps, this is (or it was) the standard way to eat a boiled egg in America - you see it in old movies sometimes, with proper double-ended egg cups, small cup at one end for the egg in its shell, bigger cup at the other end to break it up in and to eat it out of.

I think it’s quite unusual to eat a poached egg with bread rather than toast.

for my version of “egg in a cup”, which is with untoasted white bread in small chunks the main difference would be that it can be eaten with a fork only and is less messy, so a child can manage it more easily. Also each forkful has an even distribution of all the ingredients. And some kids balk at white if they have to cut into it but are OK if pre-mixed.

I remember that if my Mum slightly undercooked a boiled egg it could be rescued as an egg in a cup. (We weren’t afraid of salmonella!)

You mash the (always soft!) boiled eggs up in a cup with a generous spoonful of butter and some salt and pepper.

Just easier to make than poached eggs really.

Guess what I'm off to make for my lunch RIGHT NOW....... 😁

I find boiled eggs really challenging to cook! Egg sizes vary, room temp before cooking varies, so much to calculate, but drop an egg into briskly boiling lightly salted water, wait a minute or so, and breakfast is ready. And the egg does indeed then get mashed up with butter and seasoning. I'm just intimidated by egg-boiling.

I agree I would usually have toast with it unless I had very fresh bread, or nice soda bread or porridge bread.

But no bread of any kind for me until Christmas, if then.

ps, I'm not a total waste of space, I can and do hard boil eggs very successfully. But soft, done just right, with a firm white and a soft yolk - poaching for me, every time.

We didn't have Chucky eggs but we had soft boiled eggs in a cheese sauce. Always Saturday tea time.

Wonderful.

Egg in a cup ( Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)

Aww, this has brought a smile to my face 🥰 my mum used to call a boiled egg a chukky egg (and still calls me, my sister and the dog chukky eggs). She grew up in Surrey so I'm not sure where she picked up the name. One of her parents was Welsh and the other from Bristol.

It's not as soft as a poached egg. It's almost hard-boiled- not quite, yolk not runny but not fully set. The butter melts as it's chopped up and softens it all up.

That's unheard of in Gateshead ! Exotic cuisine.

Ooh isn’t that Anglesey eggs? With mashed potato and buttered leeks in the sauce, the most comforting food.