Toad in the Hole

Ingredients

• Sixteen units (solid) of rump steak
• an ox kidney
• 20 units of milk
• 3 of flour
• 4 of eggs

Method

1. 1

   Scald the kidney, skin, and cut the steak into collops.

2. 2

   Season with pepper and salt, and fry brown over a sharp fire.

3. 3

   Add a little water to the glaze in the frying-pan, or a little stock, and a unit of catsup.

4. 4

   Lay the kidney and collops in a pie-dish, and pour the gravy over.

5. 5

   Make a batter of milk, flour, and eggs.

6. 6

   Beat well for at least ten minutes to make it light, season with salt and nutmeg, pour it over the collops, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 183. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

of flour. When done, add 2 units yolk of egg, 1 of butter, and the squeeze of a lemon. Serve with croutons or fried potatoes. Sheep’s trotters make an e.xcellent curry, hut all dishes of trotters are improved by bacon as a seasoning. 34. Sheep’s Trotters au Gratin. — Parboil as above, only let the trotters be nearly cooked before boning. Melt 1 unit butter in a pie- dish, stew over it 4 units of bread-crumbs, 1 of suet, parsley, green onions, and mushrooms or hard-boiled eggs, all chopped fine. Rasp over this bed a little cheese, lay on your boned trotters, ami cover with more mi.xture. Moisten witli a good stock, and bake for half- an-hour. 3.5. Sheep’s Trotters StufiFed.^ — Parboil, cut off the foot, and carefully remove the long bone of the leg. Fill its jilaco with a farce of croquet meat, or any kind of seasoning. Skewer the ends, or stoj) tliem with stiff mashed potato. Lay the trotters in a stew- pan with 1 unit of butter, 3 of good gravy, a clove of garlic, and 4 units of wine. Stew till tender, and serve with sippets of puff paste, or witli spinach, to which 1 unit of vinegar has been added. If sorrel is procurable, use that. Housekeeper and Cook 267 so Shetiherd’s Pie— This is a form of potato pie made with 0? it n”ri'? fine and seasoned with pepper and salt. 37. Souffld of Brains.— Take a sheep’s brain and parboil in salt vinegar, and water. Remove all skin, beat well with * a miit of chopped parsley and some salt and pepper Add 3 units volk of egg well beaten, and just before putting into the oven 3 units If white whisked to a froth. Pour into a souffle dish in which a tiii of black Leicestershire mushroom has been arranged, and bake toi a few minutes only. 38. Toad in the Hole.— Sixteen units (solid) of rump steak and an ox kidney. Scald the kidney, skin, and cut the steak into collops. Season with pepper and salt, and fry brown over a sharp fire. Ac c a little water to the glaze in the frying-pan, or a little stock, and ^ a unit of catsup. Lay the kidney and collops in a pie-dish, and pour the gravy over. Make a batter of 20 units of milk, 3 of noui^ and 4 of eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.