Toad in the Hole

This Toad in the hole is a favourite of mine. Sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter. Stop it! Beautiful. Reminds me of when I lived in England.

What ya Want!

2 tbs lard

1 brown onion, chopped

8 sausages (your favourite)

3 eggs

140g plain flour

200 ml milk

salt and pepper for seasoning

What ya Do!

Start your oven at 200 degrees fan forced.

Throw your lard in a large square baking dish.

Add your sausage and onion.

Put in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until sausage just starts to turn brown.

Whisk eggs, flour, milk, salt and pepper by hand or with an electric mixer till forms a smooth liquid.

Remove the baking dish from the oven and turn up oven to the highest.

Add egg mixture to sausages and put straight back in the oven for 15 minutes or till the Yorkshire pudding mixture has risen and turned golden.

Serve with mash potato and carrots.

Mrs Shelley's Antics!

Hhhiiiyyyaaa!

Today Mr Shelley joined me in making this beautiful English Toad in't Ole as the Yorkshire folk say. If you want to be posh call it Toad in the Hole but I am not posh. Far from it. He had a day off work so he helped me. Isn't that wonderful? The first thing we did was of course present the baking dish.

Mr Shelley loved holding the onion to his ears pretending he was wearing earrings. We both then did the same with the carrots, potatoes and the sausages. Very strange I know. I just love food earrings.

Mr Shelley threw the onion in the dish and it went everywhere. He is as messy as me.

With this dish, it doesn't matter what sausages you use. Just use your favourite. I am a budget shopper at times so I went with the basic sausages.

Mr Shelley went on a tangent later and left me and did not come back for a while. How rude is that? I had to peel the potatoes and carrots on my own! I spilt the water from the pan of potatoes. It went everywhere on my worktop. I cannot do things nicely.

I absolutely presented the pan on the stove. I think I need a new stove top as it took me while to light one of the rings.

I tried to do a trick with the eggs and it succeeded. You throw the egg up and see if you can land it on the knife, which I did. Yaaaay. This is not my trick though. I saw it on TikTok. I have got this down to a fine art. I tried to teach Mr Shelley and of course he was game but he failed.

When I poured the milk in the Yorkshire Pudding mixture I never knew Mr Shelley was pretending to pull udders behind my back until I was editing my video.

I tricked Mr Shelley. I pretended to blow the flour in his face and he actually thought I would. How could he ever think I would do such a thing to him. He knows I would though if i wanted.

Love dancing with Mr Shelley and the salt and pepper pots.

I told Mr Shelley to prepare the Yorkshire pudding mixture and he was happy to do it and said the electric mixer was not working. Turns out, he had not turned it on. That man, sometimes.

When you are cooking the sausages in the oven, do not wait for the sausages to be fully cooked. If you put the yorkshire pudding mixture in when the sausages are fully done then they will be extremely burnt at the end as the oven goes to the highest point later.

The trick when pouring the yorkshire pudding mixture is to be as quick as possible and get it back in the oven so it can rise. Mr Shelley was time poor. I had to tell him off because I thought he ruined them but he didn't. He made it up by doing an in sync leg back kick at the oven so I let him off.

The final result was awesome. Looked perfect, smelt perfect and tasted better than perfect. This was a good hearty meal that made us think of England.

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This recipe deserved a Mr and Mrs Shelley curtsy. I hope you enjoy.

Love from Mrs Shelley (and Mr Shelley on this occasion)