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Toad In The Hole 3

Preamble
"William Kitchiner, 1817. This is excellent served with lightly boiled cabbage, well drained and pressed and then lightly tossed in butter with a touch of garlic."

Ingredients
2 oz (4 tablespoons) Beef Dripping
5 oz (1 cup) Flour
2 Eggs
1/2 pint (1 cup) Milk
1 lb Beef cut into small pieces

Method
Pour the dripping into a roasting pan. Mix the flour, eggs and milk and beat with a rotary whisk. Season. Put a quarter of this batter into the roasting pan and cook in the oven at 400 degrees (Mark 6) until it is lightly set. Lay the well seasoned strips of beef on top of the batter in the pan and cover with the rest of the batter. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until golden. It should be crisp, brown and puffy, like Yorkshire pudding. Cut into wedges and serve.

Variations
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Steak And Kidney Pudding Meat; Main Course - Steamed suet pudding

Beef Manning Meat; Main Course - Fillet coated with almond meal served with mushroom sauce

Ham Olive Pye Meat; Main Course - An old English recipe, ham olives filled with vegetables cooked in cider & covered with pastry

Reform Club Cutlets Meat; Main Course - Grilled lamb cutlets with a piquant sauce of ham, gherkins, hard boiled egg & stock

Lamb Racks Meat; Main Course - Lamb rack with garlic & rosemary, rubbed with honey & roasted

York Club Cutlets Meat; Main Course - Lamb cutlets baked with onion sauce topped with breadcrumbs

Oxtail Hotch Potch Meat; Main Course - Ox tail casserole garnished with button mushrooms & onions & bacon

Oxtail Ragout Meat; Main Course - oxtail cooked in white wine & served with the cooking vegetables

Windsor Veal Pie Meat; Main Course - Flavoured with ham & mace

Veal Kidney Florentine Meat; Main Course - An Elizabethan dish - a pastry case filled with kidneys, spices, spinach & dried fruit

Spiced Salt Beef Meat; Main Course - Roasted with suet, pressed & served chilled

Quick Spiced Beef Meat; Main Course - Lightly pickled beef cooked, pressed & served cold

Toad In The Hole 3 Meat; Main Course - Baked beef in batter

Gammon Of Bacon Meat; Main Course - Poached bacon cut into steaks & baked with breadcrumb & mustard topping

Gammon And Apricot Pie (Buckinghamshire) Meat; Main Course - Bacon & apricot pie

Cheshire Pork And Apple Pie Meat; Main Course