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EGG IN THE BASKET |
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An Egg In The Basket, or egg/eggs in a basket, is a fried egg cooked within the confines of a piece of toast whose center has been removed. The dish is known by many names.
Preparation typically begins by cutting a circular hole in the center of a piece of bread with a cookie cutter or upside down glass. The bread is then fried in a pan |
Fully cooked egg in the basket. |
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with butter, margarine or cooking oil. When browned satisfactorily, the egg is cracked into the "basket" cut into the toast. The egg is then fried to the desired consistency. When eaten, the bread and egg yolk mix readily, giving this egg dish its special quality.
Alternate recipes for those preparing this simple dish who do not have access to a stove call for the bread and egg to be microwaved. Some people say that cooking an egg "in the basket" is easier than cooking eggs alone, because the bread adds stability if the cook wishes to flip the egg. Some people put the cut-out circle of bread back on the finished toast and egg, adding a type of "lid" to the "basket". Others will break the yolk within the "basket" while it is frying, in order to let the bread more evenly absorb the flavor. It is commonly served with ketchup, jam, or cheese.
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| The dish is also known around the world under many different names including frog in the pond, bird's nest, birdie in a basket, holey toast, egg in a hole, bullseye toast, one-eyed jack, egg in a window, egg on a raft, man on a raft, paddy egg, castle'd egg, special egg, knothole egg, Popeye egg, Egyptian eyes, one eyed egyptian sandwich, gibbly's willies, eggy bread, eggs with hats on top, eggy in the basket and toad in the hole, which is also the name of a British dish. |
Making egg in the basket. |
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Other names include:
- armag-egg-on toast
- baby in the well
- bird (or birdie) in the nest
- bird in the hole
- bird's eye
- bird's nest
- bull's eye
- bullet hole toast
- camel's eye
- chicken in a window
- "cluck-in-a-hole"
- commie in a cage
- cowboy eggs
- cyclops sandwich
- deuce in the urinal (In some rural parts of the Midwest, it is referred to as duke in the urinal)
- dippy toast
- egg hole
- egg in a hat
- egg in a well
- egg in the face
- egg in the hole
- egg in the window
- egg in toast
- egg jigsaw
- egg on the real
- egg toast
- eggie in a basket
- eggs in a blanket
- eggs in a frame
- eggs in a nest
- eggs on toast
- eggy toast
- Egyptian eyes
- Egyptian fish eye
- Eric's eggs (reference to a childrens story)
- Eye eggs
- eye openers
- flat eggs
- frog in the basket
- gas house eggs
- gasthaus eggs
- ghetto omelette
- hole in one
- hole in the bread
- Hollywood egg
- holy eggs
- horse in the stable
- Japan eggs
- melted yellow and white crayons
- one-eye
- one-eyed Egyptian
- one-eyed gypsy
- one-eyed jacks
- one-eyed monster
- one-eyed sailor sandwich
- Opeth in toast
- peekaboo toast
- pigeon poop
- piggy in the muddy
- popeye eggs
- pothole eggs
- pregnant toast
- rocky mountain eggs
- Saddam Eggssein
- Scottish pizza
- stale dookie in the toilet
- sunshine toast
- surprise eggs
- the gardener spilled the fertilizer that looks like an egg in the hole that he dug in the brown dirt that looks like bread (derived from childrens story)
- toad in the hole
- toast around egg
- toast benedict
- Victor Guzman's Shit Bomb (derived from Mexican folklore)
- wes-egg
- yellow asshole (in the UK it is known as yeller Arsehole)
- yellow in the snow
- yellow moon
- yolk doughnut
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