Egg in the basket - wikipedia Egg in the basket `` Frog in the Hole '' redirects here. For the sausage dish, see Toad in the hole. Egg in the basket Egg in the basket with a `` hat '' or `` lid '' Main ingredients Bread, eggs Cookbook : Egg in the basket Media : Egg in the basket Egg in the basket -- also known by many other names -- is an egg fried in a hole of a slice of bread. A waffle or bagel ( with a large enough hole ) can also be substituted for the slice of bread. Contents 1 Names 2 Description 3 See also 4 References Names Variant names for the dish include `` bullseye eggs '', `` eggs in a frame '', `` egg in a hole '', `` gashouse eggs '', `` gasthaus eggs '', `` hole in one '', `` one - eyed Jack '', `` one - eyed Pete '', `` pirate 's eye '', `` popeye '', and `` spit in the ocean ''. The name `` Gashouse Special '' is used in the 1975 book The Kids ' Kitchen Takeover by Sarah Stein. The name `` toad in the hole '' is sometimes used for this dish, though more commonly refers to sausages cooked in Yorkshire pudding batter. The dish can be seen being prepared onscreen by actor Guy Kibbee in the 1935 Warner Bros film Mary Jane 's Pa, leading them to sometimes be known as `` Guy Kibbee eggs ''. They are sometimes called `` Betty Grable eggs '', stemming from the preparation of the dish in the actress 's 1941 film Moon Over Miami, although the script refers to them as `` gashouse eggs ''. The dish is prepared in the 1987 film Moonstruck ( by Olympia Dukakis ' character ). It is also prepared in a 1996 episode of the sitcom Friends, by the character Joey Tribbiani, who refers to it as `` eggs with the bread with the hole in the middle, à la me ! '' It is called `` eggy in the basket '' by Stephen Fry 's character in the 2005 film V for Vendetta. It is prepared using fresh eggs by Susan Sarandon 's character Marnie Minervini in the 2016 film The Meddler. The dish is also portrayed in the seventh episode of season two of Lucifer, where Lucifer enjoys one made with sweet bread and oyster leaves. Description Preparation of `` egg in the basket ''. The dish is typically bread with an egg in the center and then cooked with a little butter or oil. It is commonly prepared by cutting a circular or square hole in the center of a piece of bread. The bread, sometimes buttered prior to cooking, is fried in a pan with butter, margarine, cooking oil, or other fat. When browned, the bread is flipped, and the egg is cracked into the `` basket '' cut into the toast. Alternatively, the egg may be dropped into the bread before the bread is browned. The time the egg is placed in the bread is dependent on desired consistency. The dish is often either covered or flipped while cooking to obtain even cooking, and requires a degree of skill and temperature control to prevent burning either the egg or bread while the entire dish is cooked to the desired consistency. See also Food portal Boiled egg French toast Texas toast Fried egg List of bread dishes List of egg dishes List of toast dishes Pigs in blankets Scrambled eggs References Jump up ^ Books, Madison. 1,001 Foods to Die For. Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7407 - 7043 - 2. Jump up ^ Schrank, Rita ( 1998 ). Science, Math and Nutrition for Toddlers : Setting the Stage for Serendipity. Humanics Publishing Group. ISBN 978 - 0 - 89334 - 280 - 7. Jump up ^ Morgan, Jodie ( 2004 ). The Working Parents Cookbook : More Than 200 Recipes for Great Family Meals. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8118 - 3685 - 2. Jump up ^ AEB.org page : `` Fried Egg in Toast recipe. '' Jump up ^ AuntiBagel.com : `` The Elephant Egg Bagel. '' ^ Jump up to : `` A Way with Words - Names for an Egg in Toast Dish ''. Jump up ^ Serious Eats ( 22 June 2009 ). `` Egg in Toast : What Do You Call It ? ''. Jump up ^ Stein, `` The Kids ' Kitchen Takeover '', Workman Publishing Co., 1975, ISBN 0 - 911104 - 45 - 3 Eggs List of egg topics Types Bird Fish and amphibian Monotreme Fossil record Cephalopod Fish Reptile ( dinosaur ) Pathology Biology Embryo Ichthyoplankton Ootheca Oviparity Spawn Zygote Components Yolk White Shell As food List of egg dishes Boiled Coddled Custard desserts Deviled Eggs Benedict Fried Omelette Poached Pickled Roe Scotch Scrambled Smoked Soufflé Tea egg Trophic egg In culture Easter egg Egging Fabergé egg Humpty Dumpty Oomancy Ovo vegetarianism Yoshi Commons Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egg_in_the_basket&oldid=839080512 '' Categories : Egg dishes Bread dishes Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español עברית 日本 語 Edit links This page was last edited on 1 May 2018, at 03 : 52. About Wikipedia

Question: what do you call an egg in toast
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