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

[Finnebhir Littlecreek]

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As for the toast with egg in the center- Mom simply called it Egg in the Middle. My favorite part was taking the little toast cut-outs and sopping up the runny egg yolk. However I wouldn't eat it nowadays, since I have acquired an aversion to eating eggs that are recognizable as such. Only baked in, or part of a cream something or other(like custard) will I actually eat eggs.

As for it being Depression era type cuisine, I'd have to disagree slightly. I think it is simply a filling way to eat when you are not so economically secure. Same thing for casseroles with lots of noodles. Mom makes this dish of canned tuna, egg noodles(Oh god, here's the infamous Luthern Binder rearing it's ugly head!), cream of mushroom soup, and on rare occasions peas.

Just a thought before Pennsic...
Finn


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:25:59 -0400

>Good Morning, all!
>


>
>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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