Toad in the Hole
Serves 4
The trick to getting the pudding batter to billow up is to make sure you heat the fat in the tray, in which it is to be cooked. The fat should be smoking when you pour in the batter, this way it starts to cook immediately enabling a good rise.
Part-cooking the sausages before adding them to the batter ensures that they don’t look anaemic – you want shiny brown burnished ‘toads’ to make it look appetising.
Served with a rich gravy this is sure to be a winner.
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 125g plain flour
- 150ml milk mixed with 150ml cold water
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 fat, herby pork sausages
- 3 tbsp dripping, lard or sunflower oil
Method
Preheat the oven to 220C / 425F / Gas 7.
Fry the sausages until they are nicely browned all over and almost cooked through.
Put the dripping, lard or sunflower oil in a roasting tin, put it in the oven until it becomes smoking hot
Carefully remove the tin from the oven and pour in the batter – it will start to sizzle slightly in the hot fat – then arrange the sausages in the batter.
Place the tin back into the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes until puffed and golden.
Serve with gravy and your favourite vegetable.
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