[Sca-cooks] Regional names for common egg dish...

[Sue Clemenger]

I've never encountered the creamed eggs--not sure if it sounds yummy or
nasty!, but the other dish, with the toast, sounds like what we used to
call "toad in a hole."
On the other hand, the one egg dish my family made (my dad taught us)
that I never saw anybody else do was one in which you sauteed a little
chopped-up onion, threw in some chopped-up tomatoes (fresh or canned,
but drain the canned), and a bunch of beaten eggs.  Some salt, pepper,
and curry powder.  Made this divine-tasting, nasty-looking scrambled egg
"stuff" that dad always called "English monkey."  The "monkey" was
supposedly derived from some Indian (sub-continent) word "mankee," or
something....
Anyone ever heard of *that* stuff??
--Maire, who should be at work but missed the bus <grump>

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> Good Morning, all!
>
> In my constant effort to improve conditions and keep the moral and
> intellectual tone of this list on a high level (that is, when I'm not
> talking about Twinkies), I thought I'd share one of the questions
> that has become a subject for discussion on the little pseudo e-list
> (you know, where you hit "Reply to All") formed by my family members.
> I'd been asking them for impressions about whether the stuff we ate
> as children was the traditional foods of our particular ethnicity,
> inspiration on the part of my Mom born of desperation, economy, and
> expedience, or what.
>
> So, for example, on Friday nights in Lent we might be served a dish
> of hard-boiled eggs in cream sauce with a little onion, and we had
> this weird name for this dish, which turned out to be a nickname made
> up by my German grandmother. It took me 40 years to discover that
> lots of people eat this, and know it as creamed eggs (I remember this
> dish being more or less universally despised when we were kids, and
> now I'm thinking back and saying, "Hmmm. You know... maybe...")
>
> However, my sister, who lives in Israel, just wrote to me and
> announced that she'd just discovered that one of our childhood
> breakfast staples, which we called a Hole In One, and which consists
> of a slice of sandwich/toast-type bread, with a round hole cut into
> it with a small glass or something, sauteed/griddled with an egg
> cracked into the hole, is alive and well in Israel, under the name,
> Beitzah B'Kein, which translates to "Egg in a Nest." I recall
> Theodore Sturgeon, in one of his novels ("The Dreaming Jewels"???)
> describing these and calling them Gas House Eggs.
>
> For various reasons, I would suspect these are more of American
> rather than European origin, at least in the form I've encountered
> them in. If I had to guess I would say they were probably
> Depression-era truck-stop cuisine. I expect others on this list have
> encountered these. What do you call them?