Re: Egg-a-cup!

Jude wrote:

~patches~ wrote:

Jude wrote:


"Egg a cup" makes me thik of my mom's Toad In The Hole -  a slice of
bread with a hole cut out of the middle, buttered, andf fried in a
skillet with an egg fried into the hole. The round of bread got fried
up seperately. Nice and buttery, crispy, delicious. Maybe I'll have one
for lunch today.


I have fond memories of this as do my kids :)  Some will argue this
isn't the proper name for the dish but IMO it got the egg into the kid
without hassle so I'll continue calling it that.



Exactly. When we moved to England when I was 7, I learned about English
Toad In The Hole, which has a batter lilke a yorkshire pudding and then
there are sausages in it, if I remember correctly. We liked this dish
too, but it wasn';t Toad In The Hole. You can call it whatever you
want, as long as I can eat it!

Do your kids like the 'hole' best? I always did, and now my daughter
does too.


My FM (not biological mother) was English but was actually born on the ship on route from England to Canada. She came up with the dish but I suspect it was from her parents who settled in Canada in 1903. At that time, eggs would have been a lot cheaper than sausages so hence the dish evolved to something that was appealing and used eggs. That's just my theory but I loved it as a kid and so did my kids.

BTW, since I'm into genealogy, I have noticed a couple of things. Some of my ancestors came to Canada in 1909. Of these, one was a strict vegetarian because her father had been a butcher. They lived atop the butershop and she just could not tolerate the smell of any kind of meat not even fish. This line didn't seem to adopt a real fondness of eggs as far as just eating them either. Now this is just my English lines. The French and Native lines get a lot more interesting as to what they ate. One of these days, I will share my findings :)
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