What do you call this egg dish?

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  • Adam and Eve on a raft
  • Baby in a buggy
  • Belly button egg
  • Betty Jane
  • Bird drop eggs
  • Bird in the basket
  • Bird’s nest
  • Bull’s eye
  • Bullseye eggs
  • Circus toast
  • Cowboy eggs
  • Egg in a basket
  • Egg in a blanket
  • Egg in a boat
  • Egg in a cage
  • Egg in a frame
  • Egg in a hole
  • Egg in a house
  • Egg in a nest
  • Egg in a pocket
  • Egg on an island
  • Egg toast
  • Eggs quarantine
  • Eggy in a basket
  • Egyptian toast
  • Fireman’s toast
  • Gashouse eggs
  • Hobo eggs
  • Hocus pocus eggs
  • Hole in one eggs
  • Hole in the wall
  • Hot house eggs
  • Knot-hole eggs
  • Lighthouse eggs
  • Magic egg
  • Moon over Miami
  • One-eyed monster
  • One-eyed Pete
  • Ox eye eggs
  • Peek-a-boo eggs
  • Popeye eggs
  • Popeye toast
  • Rocky Mountain toast
  • Spit in the eye
  • Spit in the ocean
  • Sunshine eggs
  • Tennessee eggs (in bread eggs)
  • The rye of Sauron
  • Toad in a hole
  • Something else
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FYI:

“Toad in the hole” is a sausage dish. Not eggs.

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From Wikipedia:

(FYI)

4

We always called it “eggs in bread”.

5

My dad called it “Camper’s Delight” which I think he got from Boy Scouts (one pan and a knife is all the dishes you need).

I’ve also heard it called “Egg-in-Toast”.

My brother called it “Grandma Eggs” but only because he thought it was Grandma’s specialty.

I call it “Camper’s Delight” but almost never make it when camping.

6

Your poll omits the one true name: “Gold mine sandwich”. :slightly_smiling_face:

7

I learned them as a One-Eyed Jack so I voted “something else.”

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Yeah, I stopped calling it “toad in the hole” many years ago when I found out that it actually referred to another dish. Or I should say, there is another dish with the same name, as “toad in the hole” for the OP’s dish seems to be a common dialectal variation. So I’m an “egg in a basket” guy now.

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Definitely not Toad in a Hole, which is a delicious dish combining sausage and Yorkshire pudding. My wife would cut a hole in the toast with a jelly jar and call it Egg in a Basket. Just plain egg on a piece of toast like that is a dish I call Egg on a Piece of Toast. Hardly worthy of a more name than that.

10

But the picture shows an egg in a cut-out hole, doesn’t it? Or at least that’s how I see it.

11

I call them One-Eyed Sandwich, so I voted “something else.”

12

Something Else:
Egg Fried In The Hole Cut Out Of A Piece Of Bread.

Really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

And for the record, this is “Egg in a basket”:

You can tell by how few baskets are, in fact, flat.

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Something else: I’ve neither seen nor heard of such a dish.

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Those are egg & toast cups. :slight_smile: Actually, I don’t even know if that’s the standardized name here, but googling it does show the correct images. “Egg in a basket” just shows the stuff like what’s in the OP, but I’m assuming my Google image search is location-based, so, being in the US, I’ll get US dialect results.

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I don’t remember.

I grew up with a variation with much smaller holes – just big enough for the yolk – and the egg on top. For the past 25 years or so, I’ve making grilled egg sandwiches – two slices of bread, both with holes just big enough for the yolk, and egg in between. Sometimes more than one egg if the bread is big enough.

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It’s actually made incorrectly in the photo: the hole is much too big. You want the hole to be as large as your egg yolk and no larger.

Cut a yolk-sized hole in a slice of bread (square is fine if you just have a knife). Butter one side of the bread and put it in a hot pan butter side down. Add a bit more butter in the hole. Now immediately crack an egg into the hole. All the egg white should flow out over the top of the bread with the yolk nestled down in the hole. Cook until the bottom of the bread is perfectly browned, then carefully flip (you really don’t want to break the yolk, and it’s hard to flip it fast enough that it doesn’t fall out but slow enough you don’t break it). Now cook until the egg white is fully set, but not so long the yolk is set (this is the tricky bit). To eat, use your fork to break open the center where the soft yolk is, and as you cut pieces of bread dip them into the yolk.

A hole big enough to hold the whole egg means that in order to get the white firm you will have a firm yolk, which makes the whole exercise pointless.

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Some of us prefer a firm yolk. :wink:

18

We called them “angel on horseback.”

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Interesting. I’ve never made it that way, but, then again, I don’t have much reference for the dish other than what I’ve read about it and pictures I’ve seen. I made it from time to time but didn’t know anyone else who did. To be honest, I stopped because it honestly isn’t adding anything to just a simple eggs and toast. I guess the presentation is a bit more fun, but it doesn’t really add to the eating and taste experience.

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This is exactly why making it with a large hole is pointless. Just make eggs and toast.

Even if you are a heathen who wants firm yolks, at least use the yolk-sized hole so the white slightly soaks into the bread before cooking.