To Make Toad in a Hole

Ingredients

• 1 lb. beef.
• ½ oz. dripping.
• 1 lb. flour.
• 1 pint milk.
• 2 eggs.
• Pepper and salt.

Method

1. 1

   Prepare a batter as for Yorkshire pudding.

2. 2

   Place seasoned beef in a greased baking dish, pour batter over, and bake for about an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i lb. flour. 3 oz. dripping. Pepper and salt. 1 table-spoonful chopped parsley. 1 egg. Bread crumbs. Fat for frying. Mince the meat, and season with ketchup, pepper, and salt. Rub the dripping with the flour until there are no lumps. Add a pinch of salt and enough cold water to mix a dough. Roll out very thin and cut it in pieces of an oval shape. Wet round the edges of the paste, and put a small quantity of the meat on one half ; fold the other part of the paste over, and secure by pinching round the edges. Dip into a beaten egg and the crumbs of bread, and fry to a pale brown colour ; drain on porous paper. Serve hot on a folded napkin, and garnish with parsley. We recommend croquets and rissoles as excellent methods of preparing and using up cold meat. IRISH STEW OF COOKED MEAT. 6 potatoes. | 4 pint hot water. 1 lb. cook©d mutton. I 4 onions. Pepper and salt. ^ Boil the onions and steam the potatoes for half an hour. Cut the mutton in slices, also the onions and potatoes. Put 46 MEAT AND POTATO PUDDING — POTTED HEAD. first a layer of potatoes, then one of onions, then one of meat in a saucepan, and so on until all the materials are used. Add pepper and salt, half a pint of warm water, and simmer until all is warmed through, dish, and serve very hot. TO MAKE MEAT AND POTATO PUDDING. 2 lb. potatoes. £ pint milk. 2 eggs. 1 lb. cooked meat. 1 table-spoonful ketchup. Pepper and salt. Boil the potatoes, rub them through a colander, and make them into a thick batter with the milk and eggs. Lay some chopped and seasoned meat in a dish, then some batter ; repeat, and let the last layer be of the batter. Bake to a light brown colour and serve hot. TO MAKE TOAD IN A HOLE. 1 lb. beef. h oz. dripping, i lb. flour. Pepper and salt. 1 pint milk. 2 eggs.

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