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Toad-in-the-Hole

Recipe origin: United Kingdom

No one really knows the history behind the name of this traditional light supper dish.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 pounds pork sausage links
  • Applesauce as accompaniment

Procedure

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Prick sausages all over with a fork.
  3. Place in lightly greased 13x9-inch baking dish.
  4. Bake for 15 minutes at 350°F.
  5. While sausages are baking, measure flour and salt into a medium bowl.
  6. In another bowl, combine milk with eggs, and beat lightly with a wire whisk or fork.
  7. Gradually stir milk and eggs into flour mixture, stirring to make a smooth batter.
  8. Let stand for 30 minutes.
  9. When the sausages have baked for about 15 minutes, turn them and return pan to oven for 15 minutes more.
  10. Remove sausages to paper towels, and drain fat from pan.
  11. Return sausages to pan.
  12. Increase oven temperature to 425°F.
  13. Stir batter and pour over baked sausages.
  14. Bake the combination for 25 to 30 minutes, or until puffed and golden.
  15. Serve immediately.
 
 
Food and Nutrition: toad-in-the-hole

Sausages cooked in batter, also called sausage toad.

 
Food Lover's Companion: toad-in-the-hole

This comically named British dish consists of a yorkshire pudding batter to which small cooked link sausages are added. The dish is baked until the batter puffs up around the sausages (making them the "toads in the hole") and becomes golden brown. It's most often served for lunch or dinner.

 
WordNet: toad-in-the-hole
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: sausage baked in batter


 
Wikipedia: Toad in the hole
Toad in the hole is also the name of a pub game. See Entombed animal for the paranormal phenomenon.
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Toad in the hole is a traditional British dish comprising sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter, usually served with vegetables and gravy.

Etymology of Name

The origin of the name 'Toad-in-the-Hole' is vague. Most suggestions are that the dish's resemblance to a toad sticking its little head out of a hole provide the dish with its somewhat unusual name. [1] Toad in the hole originated in the town of Alnmouth in Northumberland. Alnmouth has a links golf course which can at certain times of the year be overrun with Natterjack toads. It was at just such a time, that a golf tournament was being played and the leader made his put only to have the ball promply ejected by a rather vexed toad that had been quietly asleep in the bottom of the cup. On hearing of the players misfortune, the chef at the towns hotel where the players were staying devised the dish, thinking it would resemble a toad rising from the eighteenth, and served it that night.

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Recipe. Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World. Copyright © 2002 by The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
Food and Nutrition. A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2005 by A. E. Bender and D. A. Bender. All rights reserved.  Read more
Food Lover's Companion. Food Lover's Companion. Copyright © 2001 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
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