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toad in the hole

Frog in the hole

I call it eggs in a nest, SO just makes a wretching sound, his mom (of goop fame) made it once and to this day he cant even smell it without getting sick. (makes going to a diner fun) He likes eggs and toast, just not cooked together.

Delish - it was the first meal my (then bf) hub ever made for me...we call it toad in the hole, can't wait to serve it to our 16 month son old one day ;)

Egg in a frame.

Egg in the whole. Topped with some salsa, it's my favorite breakfast.

You may remember a version of this egg dish prepared by Ms. Dukakis, the one who played Cher's mom, for her daughter one morning in the wonderful film: 'Moonstruck'.

I only know toad-in-the-hole as pork sausages cooked in a Yorkshire pudding. It's eggs-in-a-nest for me.

eggs in a basket!

Toad in the hole or gashouse eggs(different sides of the family called them different things)

Gas Light Egg

Egg in a hole.

(Toad in the hole, to me, is sausages baked in a popover batter. Very good, but totally different.)

When I was growing up, we called it "one-eyed jack," and it was my very favorite breakfast (especially the buttery cut-out piece from the bread). I heard the term "egg in a frame" later on and now use them interchangeably. However, the hole in the bread was always square, cut out with a knife, not a circle cut with (I assume) a biscuit cutter...and this is how I still make them.

ex-GF used to call it "egg-in-the-hole-in-the-bread". she was crazy though.

@gutreactions - I always think of Moonstruck when I make these!

I call it egg in a basket - I just made it for breakfast this morning along with Vermont Smoke and Cure Bacon and a little dish of berries.

10th grade home ec: Egg in a basket

My six year old calls it "Eggy in a Bready" and I have no clue where he got that from. Growing up with called it Egg in the Hole.

Hole in one - maybe only because my dad likes golfing.

That wikipedia article used to have a MUCH larger list of names, and the time I last saw it I added the most common term I heard used for these:

Bull's Eyes

Whatever you call it, i really don't get why you'd want to eat it. I like eggs, i like toast, i like fried eggs on toast. But i would prefer to have a taste of egg on each bite of toast, rather than eating toast toast toast, egg egg egg, toast toast toast toast toast.

Can anyone fill me in?

I call them Buddy Yuday Eggs because thats what my dad calls them. He calls them that because his best friend's (Buddy Yuday) Dad made them whenever he stayed the night as a kid.

"Eggie in the Basket" is what I've always called it

My dad always called it a hole-in-one.

Rocky Mountain Eggs

I grew up calling them Camel's Eyes and my old roommate's family called them One-Eyed-Egyptians.

Egg in a hat (you put the cut out piece ojn top of the egg, making a "hat")

DRY!
I had this dish recently for the first, and likely only time (at the new Friendly Toast in Cambridge, MA) and found it to be very dry. Not my cuppa tea.

I'm from New England and my mother (English/Irish background) used to call it 'Polish Eggs', but I'm not sure whether or not this was intended to be derogatory.

Knot-hole Eggs!

egg in a basket, now i want this for breakfast!

my mom always called them One-Eyed Petes.

My dad calls them gashouse eggs.

Hocus Pocus egg

Bull's eyes. I never heard Eggie in a Basket until watching V for Vendetta.

In Costa Rica some people call them "Huevos con Pan Pegado", translated that would be "Eggs with Glued Bread". That's the case in my house, and actually my breakfast favourite.

I'm with those that call it "Egg in a Hole"

Reminds me of being a kid whenever I make it.

My family calls it mountain toast, but I've never heard anyone else call it that. But when my family used to go upstate and it was time for everyone to go home my father would take everyone's leftover bread and eggs and make "mountain toast" for everyone. So at least our name for it has spread :)

Nothing--I make long fumbling descriptions :) But that looks delicious...and is that bread Acme Pain de Mie? DOUBLE DROOL

"a man in a raft" if it's one egg or "two men in a raft" if you squeeze two eggs in.

My best friend growing up calls them Egyptian eggs, no idea why.

Nest eggs.

Birds in a Basket - always! the one thing my dad knows how to make really well

One-eyed Susie

omg. hilarious. i will have to have egg-in-a-hole for breakfast tomorrow! i eat mine with ketchup, anyone else?

@gutreactions - on the money, that Moonstruck scene is classic.

"I'm confused!"

I grew up calling them Eggs in Toast. Clearly, not a particularly imaginitive name, but certainly a clear one.

Gas house eggs.

This dish was feature in the movie V is for Vendetta

We called it

Eggie in a basket

i've never seen this dish before in my life.

For some reason my mother called them "Egyptian eggs." I have no idea why.

"egg in the toast fried together". if i call it anything else, my son gets confused and doesn't know what he is getting.

Bullseye!

@tankwatkins: I hope you're kidding about your "correct" name. The whopping three ingredients in this dish maybe, just maybe, mean it has more than one inventor, and thus more than one name. We call them eggie in a basket (because toad in the hole was taken). Remember: colloquialism=cultural identity, insisting on "correct" terminology=insufferable gasbag.

bf calls them "eggs on a raft". I had never had one before he came along.

roomate and I much prefer "hobo eggs" (which I believe comes from that wikipedia entry....)

egyptian's eye

Eggy in the middle...........

Moon over Miami eggs.

@emilydev - Butter is the primary ingredient in my experience, followed by toast & egg. Not dry at all!

Sunlets. Obviously.

I'd call it gross. Sorry.

Hubby calls this fireman's toast. It's extra awesome when made from garlic bread.

My father always called them "One eyed Texans"... haven't seen that one out of all the responses.... it's starting to give me a complex! But I'm going to continue using the name.....

I never had these until my MIL made them for me. She just calls them bogies (long "o" sound).

And seriously, "correct" name? B/c all food dishes only have ONE correct name, OBVIOUSLY. Adurr! /sarcasm.

Also, I third (fourth?) the comment that you use lots of butter and it's not dry. We usually just use homemade French bread, so there's a better ratio of egg to toast than that picture.

I'm sending this link to my MIL, some of the names on here are great!

Birds in a nest

egg in a basket

"Egg in Bread"

Egg in a basket. Strangely, I will eat two eggs and two pieces of toast if the eggs are prepared in some other manner, but with egg in a basket, I can only eat one.

+1 to those who remember the Moonstruck scene! Rose Castorini makes hers with a few strips of roasted red pepper on top, and it always looks delish to me!

Eggie in a hole!!

Toad in the hole

My mom always called them "hunter's eggs." I have no idea why.

No matter what you call it - it does look really good inside of that thick cut toast!

I want to call it "pass me a fork"!!!

I actually never had a name for this until I saw V For Vendetta, and in the movie one of the characters called it "Eggie in a Basket". I've been calling it that ever since. I love having this for anytime of the day, breakfast, brunch, lunch, snack, dinner, midnight snack. Sheer perfection.

My mom always called them Popeyes, so that's what I call them. My ex-boyfriend called them egg in a window.

My faves from this list: Buddy Yuday Eggs, and the 6 year old that calls it Eggy in a Bready. Funny and cute.

Weird, I've always heard it "egg in a blanket" and I haven't seen that on the list yet at all.

bullseye... but I never got it as a bullseye, I got it as a soft boiled egg chopped up and mixed with chopped up toast

eggum toast!!

i'm correcting myself here... "sunshine in a window."

sprinkled with a little truffle salt and it's more like magically delicious goodness!

We always just called it "egg-in-toast". I'm thankful to as I'm stuffy and cannot be asked to call things childish names.

Doing our bit for diversity ; lets call them "huevos paneros bro " .

Eggs in a basket.

i've heard "egg in the hole" and "egg in the basket" a lot, but my mom always called it "sunshine eggs" - made in sourdough, of course

How about Hole in One?

I have known it as Popeye and that it is a Jewish custom. A friend once explained this to me and she served her son this all the time.

My (Italian-American) mother called it "an egg in a frame." I assumed it was her personal creation, something only our family did -- never realized till a few years ago that everybody was onto it!

I just made this for my boyfriend a few weeks ago....I call them a "toad in the hole" and I believe I picked this up while living in London many years ago. My step-father from Chicago however has always called them "loogins" and put cheese on top so I am assuming perhaps a Chicago thing????

My mother called this dish "Hollywood Eggs" and I've been eating them now for 65 years. And, for luck, you must eat the torn-out circle of bread immediately.

My hubby calls them "Toast Middles". Stop laughing! It's because he is more fascinated with the little round center pieces of bread that are toasted and served on the side. Go figure.

This too was a fave of my childhood and I still make them for guests sometimes. Around our 'hood, they were always referred to as "nest eggs". (However, the crazy old witch-lady who lived down the street would call them "nyeshtala svbogra"). She'd serve them to us kids when we'd help her weed her garden or rake her leaves. After she'd cook them in the pan, she'd start melting a thick slice of some kind of salty cheese in another pan and then press the nest egg onto/into the grilling cheese slab to fuse them together. Yummy as heck but then, while we ate, she'd always do her crazy St. Vitus kinda dance and singing these strange words we didn't understand. In truth, she kinda scared the hell out of us but we did love her nyeshtala svbogra!

Wow! I think I only saw one other post for one of the two names I called the dish growing up (and to this day):

"Moon Over Miami"

And we also called it a "Spit In the Eye"!!!

The Schaffroth Special

we always put a slice of mozzarella over the egg, when it was done, and put it under the grill for a minute till it melted...would be good with a little tomato sauce on it too................

We called this "Eye Toast". It's so good!

Toad in the hole

Bunny in a Basket! However, I started using a bat-shaped cookie cutter when my son was younger and he was hooked on Batman movies. Since then, it's been Bat in a Basket!

In England, where it originated, Toad In The Hole was a banger in Yorkshire Pudding batter. Egg In The Nest was what we always called the egg & toast combo...as did everyone in our village. I think the name all depends on what part of the world, or part of the country in the U.S. you come from. But Toad In The Hole is most definitely Bangers and pudding. By the way...how does one get the top of the egg cooked when the bread is thick? Do you turn it over?

My mom used to make these when we were kids - she called it "Sunny-side-up-whole-in-the-middle". Kind of a mouthful, huh?

I, too wonder about the thick bread pictured.

Eggs on a raft. Of course.

A Really good breakfest

'HOT HOUSE EGGS'. In his book 'D is for Dahl', Roald Dahl mentioned 'hot house eggs', with black & white pictures.My lad who, had never eaten an egg happily in 8 years suddenly took to it, & there's been no looking back.From someone who never touched an egg for breakfast with a bargepole, he became a happy egg eater!!

Not many people ordinarily cook In movies but in "Moonstruck", Olympia Dukakis makes breakfast for her daughter Cher and she makes the 'egg in toast'. I don't remember if she names it --- I don't think so.

Disgusting.
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Toad in the Hole. Toad in the Hole. Toad in the Hole. Anything else is just wrong! Actually, in the interest of sociology, we should all be putting the source of our name here as well, for example, my Dad called them toad in the hole. He grew up in the tri-cities, WA, and is of scotch-english background.

My husband and I call them Moonstruck eggs, but my 100 year old grandmother calls them "Moon Over Miami"

Egg-in-a-Hat! But my husband has never heard of it! I'll have to make it for breakfast tomorrow! :)

Joe Style eggs is what I remember also. [ r.e. my prievious comment ]

Never saw them till I married my ex when he used to fix them for our kids. He called them Toad in the Hole.

Radio eggs!

Growing up Dad called it a Bulls Eye (from Rhode Island). We always loved when Dad had to make breakfast! He cut the hole with a shot glass so the hole was just big enough for the yolk part and the rest of the egg ran over the bread so you had to flip it and cook that side too! Just don't over cook it and it won't be dry. The hardest part was buttering both sides of the bread. I get around that now by using a brush and softened butter.

Everyone knows it's called a "bunny egg". My grandmother invented it.

Eggy in a basket, from V for Vendetta.

My hubby made these for me for me all the time when we were in college - we call them Eggs in a Basket.

One-eyed Jack