Toad-in-the-hole
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Here’s a quick breakfast dish that I learned in Girl Scouts.
Cut a hole out of the center of bread. I used a two inch round biscuit cutter. You can use any shape. During Christmas, use Christmas cookie cutters. Cover the bottom of a non-stick skillet with canola oil. Place the bread in the skillet, break an egg into the hole. Cook on both sides. I put the cut out pieces in the pan to brown for toast, also. Serve the toad-in-a-hole along with the toast and homemade muscadine grape jelly from the muscadines off your backyard vines. If you don’t have homemade muscadine jelly, any jelly will do.
Toad-in-the-Hole with Muscadine Jelly
We’ve had so much fun sharing all the names that we know for this great little breakfast dish. Here’s the list:
- Toad-in-the-Hole
- Eggs in a Nest
- Hole ‘n the Bread
- Sunshine Toast
- Chicken and Hens
- Popeye
- One Eyed Jacks
- Georgia Sunrise
- Egg in a Basket
- Peek-a-Boos
- Bird in a Nest
- Spider Specials
- Eggs with Hats (served with the cut-out bread on top of the eggs)
- Camp Eggs
- Eggs With a Hole in the Middle
- Egg in a Hole
- Buckeye Egg
- Owl’s Eye
- Eggs on a Raft (Eggs and Giraffe)
- Frog in a Hole
- Egg ‘n the Middle
- Coal Miner Sandwiches
- Nest Egg
- Egg in a Frame
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At the duncan house we call this Egg in a Nest…LOL… nothing better OR faster!
Trish,
I love all the different names for this simple little dish! I learned to make it in Girls Scouts in the 3rd grade! <3
We always called them “hole ‘n the bread” at our house…lol. But toad in the hole is cuter! Love these and have continued the tradition by making them for my kids….who also love them!
Michelle,
This is such a great little dish with a great little name. Thanks for reading an commenting!
Love this…we call it Sunshine Toast
Jennifer,
That’s the first I’ve heard it called Sunshine Toast. What a perfectly wonderful and descriptive name. I love it!
My mom made this for me and my brother when we were growing up and she called in toad in the hole, too! I made it for my husband after we got married (some 9 years ago) and he thought I was crazy, but he LOVES it! It is one of my absolute favorite breakfasts! After moving to Tennessee in 2004, I had the joy of trying muscadine wine then muscadine jelly – delish! This is a fantastic breakfast for sure!
Angela,
I have been amused by learning all the different names for this dish! I haven’t had muscadine wine but would love to try it. We love muscadine jelly. Unfortunately, my muscadine vines didn’t produce enough this year for me to make another batch of jelly. Two harsh winters in a row have stunned the vines. We are hopeful for a milder winter.
I have heard these called a lot of different things like chickens and hens or popeyes, what ever you call them they are still one of my favortie breakfast/dinner foods. They even taste good with a little syrup.
Nicole,
I’ve really enjoy learning all the different names for this little dish. Never thought about syrup but it does sound good!
Had to comment on this one too, my Alabama momma calls it an “Egg in a Basket” my North Carolina husband calls them “One Eyed Jacks” and I had a roommate in college that called it a “Georgia Sunrise”. So many names for the same thing. Too funny!
We also butter the little middles and fry them up right in the same pan. Yum!
Victoria,
One Eyed Jacks and Georgia Sunrise are both new names! What fun!
In Maine we call them “Peekaboos” but here in NC they are called “Bird in a Nest”……..either way, I love them!
Dianne,
I love all the names for this little dish! Thanks for sharing!
My Daddy made these for us and they were known as “Spider Specials”. He was born in 1904 so maybe he got the name from his Mom. They will always be Spider Specials to me and my kids! My husband gets them at least once a month or so!
Cathy,
I just love, love, love all the names for this special little dish. Thanks for adding yet another one to the list!
My mom always called them “Eggs with Hats” and served them with the toast cutouts on top of the egg.
Amanda,
That is the cutest name! I love it!
Yep, home ec class, 7th or 8th grade…eggs in the basket. And we HAD to eat them. Our teacher said anybody that didn’t like eggs would like these. But it didn’t bother me any…I love eggs just about any way you fix them. Fed these to my kids, and now the grandkids are getting them.
Sharon,
I’m not the least bit afraid to eat eggs and consider them to be healthy. I think any whole food in moderation is healthy.
we call it owls eye!
Courtney,
Thanks for adding to the list!
Egg in a Hole and Buckeye Egg
Meg,
I’m adding these names to the list. Thanks for sharing!
My Dad learned to make them as a camp counselor in his teens. He made them for all eight of us kids. He called them Camp Eggs. Somehow we kids started calling them Eggs with a Hole in the Middle. As adults we now realize this name isn’t really accurate, but that’s what we still call them! And we still love them.
Becky,
I’m adding both these names to the list. Thanks so much for sharing!
egg toast is what we called it when i was growning up and I still call it that..I’m from north Louisiana
Lynnette,
I added it to the list! Thanks for chiming in!
We called this classic recipe Eggs on a Raft. However when my girls were little, the name slurred into Eggs and Giraffe! So happy the recipe thrives after all these years!
Barbara,
I added Eggs on a Raft (Eggs and Giraffe) to the list! Thanks so much for sharing. I love those early pronouncements that live on in families. We have several, too: medicine (medness), windshield wipers (wind shippers) are a couple.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing. I hope you visit often!
We’ve always called this “Frog in a Hole”
Thanks, Julie. I added Frog in a Hole to the list! We’re up to 20 names now.
My husband introduced these to me when we were first married. His family called them “Egg n’ the Middles”.
Sooo Good
Lynn,
I’m adding Egg ‘n the Middles to the list. Thanks so much for sharing!
My late father-in-law, who was a wonderful cook, called them “Coal Miner Sandwiches.” He would cook them in butter, which made the bread like buttered toast. Yummy memories!
Anne,
What a lovely story! I can’t thank you enough for sharing with all of us. I’m adding Coal Miner Sandwiches to the list of names.
My older sister-in-law showed me this when I was very young. She called it a “Nest Egg”, and also toasts the “holes” in the same pan. Sometimes my younger son makes them for himself. We do love them, here in southeast Ga..
Shirley,
I’ve added Nest Egg to the list! Thank you.
My Nana called them “toad in a hole” where as my boyfriend calls them “egg in a frame”…….whatever you call them they are tasty and i think of my Nana when I have them!!!
Ranee,
I added Egg in a Frame to the list. Thanks!