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

[Olwen the Odd]

>They've been made in my family since my great-grandmother's time, who
>was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina (and _she_ remembered her
>grandparents talking about losing their family holdings due to Sherman's
>March to the Sea...). We call them egg-in-a-hole. It's a matter of pride
>to saute the bread (family preference is a large slice of sourdough) in
>butter without browning said butter to a crisp, then frying the egg
>gently in the hole, the equivalent of 'over easy.' Our cutter of choice
>was the larger end of a metal jigger. ;)
>
>ciorstan

I like mine made with seeded rye bread with the 'over easy' egg.
Olwen

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