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
- One-eyed Egyptian Sandwich
- Cowboy Eggs
- Eggy Bread
- Effie in the Hole
- Eggs and Toast
- Eggs in a Frame
- Sun Toast
- One-eyed Sailor
- Eggie Boats
- Chicken in a Basket
- Egg in a Hat
- Hot House Eggs
- Bregg
- Gold Mine Sandwich
- Eggs in a Blankie
- Hens in a Blanket
- Boy Scout Eggs
- Hens in a Basket
- Poached Toast
- Toasted Eggs
- Pig in a Poke
- Wink ‘ums
- Eggs in a Bread Basket
- Portholes
- Rooty Kazooty Eggs
- Pirate Toast (add ketchup to make blood shot eyes and use one of the cutouts for a patch)
- Elephant Eyes
Vicie Martin says
Just found you on Facebook & can’t wait to try some of your recipes. My family always called this “One-eyed Egyptian Sandwich” ❤️
Jackie Garvin says
Thank, Vicie! Welcome to Syrup and Biscuits. I added One-eyed Egyptian Sandwich to the list making it #25. 🙂
misty says
Eggs in a basket
Jennifer Larsen says
We call this Toasted Eggs around my house.
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Debra Teague says
My Dad called them Hot House eggs
He would use the star cookie cutter for ours
He would also make us Mickey Mouse pancakes : large circle for head 2 small connected cakes for ears
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Elizabeth Walker says
My late husband loved these. He called them eggs in a blankie, lol
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
schizoozy1 says
my son always called it “Poached Toast”
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Jessica Tillotson says
At my house we call them Hens in a Basket. I butter both sides of my bread (a very messy process, btw) and fry them that way. My husband just loves them.
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Jean Marie Kennedy says
We have always called them ‘Boy Scout Eggs’ – because when my husband was a scout (almost 50 years ago), that’s what they were served at Boy Scout Camp.
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Jacqueline Jewell Presnell says
We have always called it Gold Mine sandwich
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Yazmin says
My friends from Texas call is Bregg!!
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
coleen says
Sun toast
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Susan Gibson says
I think Peek a boo Eggs sounds good to me will have to try these.My husband said that his mom and grandmother made these for him as he was growing up.Now I have to taste these I know they will be good Peek a boo Eggs is what they called them.
Jackie Garvin says
Susan,
We had Peek-a-boo eggs on the list. I hope you enjoy them! 🙂
barnyarn says
We used to make these all the time when we were kids! We called them egg in a hat.
Jackie Garvin says
Added to the list!
Shirley Lovett says
My older sister-in-law taught it to me when I was very young. But instead of using oil, use butter, and the bread toasts nicely and it has a much better overall flavor. We simply call it a “Nest Egg”.. And don’t forget to toast the bread cut-out in that butter, too!
Jackie Garvin says
Nest egg’s on the list. I always toast the extra piece of bread. Wouldn’t want to cheat anyone. 😉
Donna Huskey says
Chicken in a basket – my husband always loved these and asked ;me to make them. I think his grandmother made them for him when he was small.
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Bev says
My Mom called them Eggie Boats. I loved them, my son loved them and now my grandchildren ask for them.
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Merebear says
Momma always called them One Eyed Sailors 🙂
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
toni says
we call it eggs & toast
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Ginny says
Eggs in a Frame
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!
Marilyn Pelloat says
Effie in the hole
Jackie Garvin says
Added it to the list!