Name: Toad-in-the-Hole
Yield: For 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons brandy salt and black pepper; 4 small fillet steaks, cut in half again; 1 pint (6 dl.) batter (pancake batter Basic Recipe 1) into which an extra ½ oz. (15 g.) melted butter has been beaten; 2 oz. (60 g.) butter; ½ pint (3 dl.) very good brown gravy, highly seasoned and fairly thick; 2 oz. (60 g.) finely chopped almonds fried to a light brown

Elisabeth Ayrton

Toad-in-the-Hole

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For
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cookery of England

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1975

About

Recipe from an unpublished eighteenth-century MS. This is much grander than the usual sausage toad-in-the-hole.

Ingredients

1 pint (6 dl.) batter (pancake batter Basic Recipe 1) into which an extra ½

Europe
United Kingdom
Main course
England

Method

Put the 8 little steaks on a plate, season them with salt and pepper, pour the brandy over them and leave them while you make the batter.

Put the butter in a baking tin in a hot oven (400° F., gas mark 6) and melt till smoking hot. Pour in the batter, bake for 10 minutes. Take it out, prefera

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