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Margaret Suran
 
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Pandora wrote:
> How do you call your cow's eye egg?
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> In Italy we call: Uova all'occhio di bue".
> And you?
> Cheers
> Pandora who is making "uova all'occhio di bue" and focaccia for dinner!
> Cheeers
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In Austria (Vienna) we called it Spiegelei, Mirror Egg, I do not know
why. Perhaps because the cooked yolk was so shiny, you could almost
see your reflection in it.

Later on I found out that in Germany it was called Oxenaug, Eye of an
Ox. Very similar to your Cow's Eye. ) Again, I do not know why,
but the name did not appeal to me. (