Toad in the Hole

[Sabai Jai]

So what goes best with Toad in the Hole?

Mashed potatoes..peas?

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Feeling really hungry suddenly!

Regards Sabai Jai

[John HH]

Well I always love mashed potato and onion gravy with toad and the hole. Gotta be good batter for the yorkshire thou maybe a little ale involved. Not a bit pea lover thou

Making me hungry just thinking about it Mmmmm.

John

[PeteC]

Why in the world would they call sausages 'toads'? Should it not be bangers in the hole possibly? Pete

[crazy88]

Onion gravy for sure .Mash or Jersey royals well buttered .

Crazy 88

[STEVE G]

Why in the world would they call sausages 'toads'? Should it not be bangers in the hole possibly? Pete

It’s been called that for quite a while Pete, perhaps the mixed meat traditionally used looked like a toad when cooked:

No. 59. Toad in the Hole.
To make this cheap dinner, you should buy 6d. Or 1s. Worth of bits or pieces of any kind of meat, which are to be had cheapest at night when the day's sale is over. The pieces of meat should be first carefully overlooked, to ascertain if there be any necessity to pare away some tainted part, or perhaps a fly-blow, as this, if left on any one piece of meat, would tend to impart a bad taste to the whole, and spoil the dish. You then rub a little flour, pepper, and salt all over the meat, and fry it brown with a little butter or fat in the frying pan, and when done, put it with the fat it has been fried in into a baking-dish containing some Yorkshire or suet pudding batter, amd as directed at Nos. 57 and 58, and bake the toad-in-the-hole for about an hour and a half, or else send it to the bakers.

---A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes, Charles Elme Francatelli, 1861 edition

[Spitfire]

So what goes best with Toad in the Hole?

Mashed potatoes..peas?

Correct(almost sound like Lev there)!

Along with some of this,

[niggle]

Mashed spuds and brussel sprouts

[poosmate]

" bake for an hour and a half" and then throw the burnt remains away and buy one from the bakers I would have thought unless the oven was candle powered

[Francois]

So what goes best with Toad in the Hole?

Mashed potatoes..peas?

Definitely mashed potatoes _AND_ onion gravy.

François

[Khundon1975]

So what goes best with Toad in the Hole?

Mashed potatoes..peas?

Definitely mashed potatoes _AND_ onion gravy.

François

And a good home made, horse radish cream sauce. Yum.

[hhfarang]

Why in the world would they call sausages 'toads'? Should it not be bangers in the hole possibly?

Pete, Those Brits are so good at giving appetizing names to their traditional dishes...

* Aberdeen Nips
* Beef Cecils
* Black Pudding
* Bubble and Squeak
* Clapshot
* Cullen Skink
* Dean's Cream
* Fitless Cock
* Flummery
* Girdle Sponges
* Hob Nobs
* Huffkins
* Hunter's Buns
* Love in Disguise
* Inky Pinky
* Knickerbocker Glory
* Marmite
* Priddy Oggies
* Scouse
* Singing Hinnies
* Slot
* Wet Nelly
* Wow-Wow Sauce
* Toad-in-the-hole

...and the most appetizing one of all...

* Spotted Dick

[STEVE G]

Those Brits are so good at giving appetizing names to their traditional dishes...

It’s done to keep British gastronomic delicacies a secret HH; we don’t want everyone eating them!

[hhfarang]

It’s done to keep British gastronomic delicacies a secret HH; we don’t want everyone eating them!

Your ruse is working on me. The only British food I eat regularly is Fish and Chips (and I love them). I'm so happy you didn't come up with one of those names for that dish, or I might never have tried it!

[hhfarang]

By the way, isn't "British gastronomic delicacies" an oxymoron?

[STEVE G]

I don’t know what you mean HH, you’re talking about the nation that invented these: