I like ‘em runny! I still don’t see what big difference the method will make, but I’ll try it with the kids next time.
My ex-wife, and subsequently now my kids, call it “elephant eyes”.
I heard it described as “toad in the hole” on Top Chef and “egg in a basket” in V for Vendetta, so that’s what I call em.
Is nobody picking up on the Tennessee Egg pun?
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You could be right. Didn’t look that way to me with bleary morning eyes but now it seems it could be either. My wife would serve it with the little circle of toast on top of the egg which is the way her mother would serve it when she was a child. If my mother made that when I was a child the toast would have been burned.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that. You definitely want to save the cut out bit of bread, give it a dab of butter, and fry that in the pan.
I normally call it “that egg thing where you cut out a hole in the bread and fry it all up together” but both Egg in a Basket and Egg in a Frame sounded familiar to me. Olympia Dukakis made this in Moonstruck on that huge old stove, but it looked like she was overcooking it to me. And oh yes, the cut-out piece of bread, also fried, is the very best part.
I think my Puerto Rican Abuela who raised me heard it called this but turned it into “Eggs in Bed” and that’s what I’ve called it all my life but I may be the only one who does now.
Oh wait, I have passed this along to me children. Another name for it, then.
I’ve always called it toad in the hole or egg in a hole. I’ve only made it once or twice, preferring to just make eggs and serve them with toast. Runny is a must.
From now on I’m calling it the Rye of Sauron. LOL
My Daddy called it “egg shit on a shingle”
Regular “shit on a shingle” was some kinda of non-descript meat.
We hated them both.
His pancakes were much better.
Serious answer: Egg in a basket or Eggy in a basket, based on V for Vendetta and a few other Brit-informed (not always accurate) popular media.
Non-Serious answer: Too much work! I mean, they look beautiful, but I tried once. And making eggs over easy and buttered toast are so much less work.
Favorite answer:
That’s wrong if toad-in-the-hole is wrong. Angels on horseback are oysters wrapped in bacon.
My work cafeteria had eggs-in-a-basket with the egg in a basket made of hashbrowns. Better than just bread!
Seconded. Nor have I heard of any of the listed names (in a food context). Poached egg on toast is something I had a lot of, though.
What do you do with the spare toast-holes?
Oh man. You fry 'em and eat 'em. Unless you have a begging animal underfoot.
Registering another vote for this choice.
Nor of substantially all ~53 of those names in this poll lacking the most obvious choice of all:
What in the hell is that thing? Never seen it and don’ wanna.
Specifically, Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast. When made by a semi-talented cook, it is cheap, easy and very filling. Also not half bad. In the hands of a military “cook” tasked with feeding 100+ soldiers every day, more like 80%.
Called that dish TItH for decades until I started to seriously get into cooking and didn’t want to ever confuse the dishes. Ever since then it’s Egg In the Hole.
Eggs must be fried HARD. Vulcanized. You should be able to frisbee them across the room. YMMV. It will still be wrong, though.
British Toad In the Hole is an excellent dish.
My Daddy, a career Marine probably ate tons of Shit on a Shingle.
I think the creamed part is what turned me off.
As others alluded to, the spare toast-hole gets fried along with the bread/egg part. And although more work, it’s much better than a fried egg on regular toast because the toast is fried in butter. It’s crispy, salty, fatty goodness.
Nothing’s stopping anyone from frying the toast in butter separately, though.
It seems like it would be difficult to achieve a consistently runny egg, and in any case part of the benefit of an egg on toast is that the yolk runs into the toast. It seems you’d have to chop this mess into bits to achieve the same effect.
silenus is wrong, of course–hard-fried eggs are the devil’s testicles, the sulfurous balls literally tasting of brimstone. Of no value to anything but the compost heap.