Re: (2009-06-22) Fried eggs

Andy <a@xxx> wrote in news:Xns9C3465D086D0DCotD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:




I remember one morning, my niece living with us somehow got the
incentive to make my ex and myself breakfast. She made "toad in a
hole" (?) I think it's called, with bacon. Cut a hole in the middle of
a piece of buttered toast, tossed onto a hot pan and dropped an egg
into the hole to cook. It came out really great and I said so. She
walked on air the rest of the day.


There is a dish called toad in the hole, but that's sausages in yorkshire
pudding. You cook the sausages then pour yorkshire pudding batter over them
and bake. Serve with gravy. It's very nice, though I haven't made it in
years - a once in a while treat rather than an every day dinner.

When I was little I had a children's cookbook that had a dish where you cut
a hole in a piece of bread and cooked the egg in it - I think I still have
that book. Hang on - I do. "My learn to cook book- A children's book for
the kitchen". Inscription indicates it was a birthday present from my aunt,
uncle and cousins for my 7th birthday - 1972. The book calls them "Ox-eye
Eggs". They also have Eggs in Tomatoes - cut the top off a tomato and scoop
out the middle. Crack an egg into the tomato, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and
top with a bit of butter and bake. Sounds good.

I'm going to have to look through this and see if there are any recipes I'd
like to make - I distinctly remember cooking from it as a child, but not
sure what I made. Off to take a trip down memory lane :-)

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Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
My Country, Dorothea MacKellar, 1904

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