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

[Olwen the Odd]

Hmm..the hard boiled eggs in cream sauce with onion sound great to me!
Never had it, but wouldn't mind having the recipe.  I love eggs cooked just
about any way except fried in bacon grease (ick, what is ~that~ about?).

As for the other, we never had anything like that at home, but it was one of
the recipes we learned in Home Economics at school.  The instructor called
it "toad in a hole".  I have no idea where the instructior was from, but the
school was in San Diego, California.
Olwen

>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?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Adamantius, whimsical this morning
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