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

[Avraham haRofeh]

> 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.

I've heard this called "Toad in the Hole".

Avraham

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Avraham haRofeh of Northpass
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)
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