Delia Smith Toad In The Hole Food

TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F.
• Lightly butter a medium well-seasoned cast iron skillet. Put the sausage in the skillet, and bake until almost cooked, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk the flour, sugar, and salt together in a medium bowl. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, and mustard until blended. Whisk the liquid ingredients into the dry, just until you have a slightly lumpy thin batter.
• Carefully, pour the batter over the partially cooked sausages and continue to bake until the batter puffs and is crispy, and brown, about 25 to 30 minutes more.
• Serve the Toad-in-the-Hole, hot, in the skillet with more mustard on the side.

TOAD IN THE HOLE

Steps:

• pre-heat oven.
• lightly grease small roasting tin and arrange the sausages in the bottom, cook in oven 10 minutes - i did it until they were nearly done just to be on the safe side.
• meanwhile prepare batter.
• measure flour into bowl, add a little salt and stir in the beaten egg and milk to give a smooth batter - i added more milk.
• pour batter over the sausages and return to oven for 20-25 munites until the batter is well risen,crisp and golden brown.

PAN-FRIED TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE

Steps:

• Heat the oil, first of all, in a heavy 18cm frying-pan then over a medium heat fry the chipolatas and onion rings togrether for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile preheat the grill and make up the batter.
• To do this you sieve the flour into a bowl, make a well in the centre and break the egg into it. Now whisk the egg gradually incorporating the flour and finally whisk in the milk, until you have a smooth lump-free batter (you may need to stir round the edge of the bowl and have another whisk to make sure it's all blended). Then season with salt and pepper, and whisk in the herbs.
• By this time the chipolatas will be ready, so increase the heat to its hightest setting, and when it is very hot pour in the batter all round the chipolatas. Then leave it, without stirring or anything, for 1 or 2 minutes or until it looks on the point of bubbling up slightly here and there.
• It will look a total disaster at this stage, but all is well. Just transfer the pan to sit under the grill (allowing room for the batter to rise) and let it finish cooking for about 6-10 minutes, or until it has become beautifully puffy and very crisp and brown. Now serve immediately-it will shrink somewhat but remain light and crisp.

TOAD IN THE HOLE

Steps:

• Grease a 20 x 25-cm/8 x 10-inch ovenproof dish or roasting tin.
• Make the batter by sifting the flours and salt into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the beaten egg and half the milk. Carefully stir the liquid into the flour until the mixture is smooth. Gradually beat in the remaining milk. Leave to stand for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/gas mark 7.
• Prick the sausages and place them in a dish. Sprinkle over the oil and cook the sausages in the oven for 10 minutes until they are beginning to colour and the fat has started to run and is sizzling.
• Remove from the oven and quickly pour the batter over the sausages. Return to the oven and cook for 35-45 minutes until the toad is well risen and golden brown. Serve immediately.

TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE

Steps:

• Have milk and eggs at room temperature.
• Sift flour and salt into bowl and stir in milk.
• Beat eggs until frothy, add to batter and beat.
• Let batter rest for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Heat oil in skillet, prick sausages with fork and fry until cooked or warmed if precooked.
• Place one sausage and a bit of oil from skillet in each cup of a mini muffin tin and place tin in heated oven.
• Pour batter into heated muffin tins and bake for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350° and bake another 10 minutes or until brown and puffy.
• The sausages will be nested in holes in the puffy pastry, allow to cool in tin a bit and then plate and serve.

TOAD IN THE HOLE

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 220*C/425*F.
• Pour the sunflower oil into a solid based 9 inch by 6 inch baking tray.
• Throw in the cut up onion and scatter in the sausages.
• Place in the hot oven, on the lowest shelf, for about 15 minutes while you make the batter.
• Using a sieve and holding it up high above the bowl sieve the flour into the bowl. (Doing this from a height forces air into the flour and gives you a lighter batter.
• Make a well in the middle of the flour and using a whisk, whisk in the egg and milk, along with some salt and pepper. As you whisk the flour will be incorporated from the edges and you will end up with a nice lovely thick and smooth batter.
• Whisk in the grainy mustard.
• Take the hot pan of sausages out of the oven and quickly pour the batter in and around the sausages while the fat in the pan is still sizzling.
• Return the pan to the oven, placing it on the highest shelf this time, and continue to bake for 30 minutes longer, until the sausages are nicely browned and the batter has puffed up all nice and brown around them.
• Serve hot, cut into squares with mashed potatoes and onion gravy for a delicious meal!

MINI TOAD-IN-THE-HOLES

Steps:

• KIDS the writing in bold is for you. GROWN-UPS the rest is for you. Cut the sausages with scissors. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 6. If the sausages are linked, get your child to use a pair of scissors to cut them into single sausages.
• Count the sausages. Place 2 sausages in each hole of a 12-hole muffin tin and go through all the maths this involves - two times table, counting up in twos etc. Drizzle each set of sausages with a little oil. Children from about seven upwards can now place the tin in the oven for 20 mins until the sausages have browned, getting a grown-up to turn the sausages halfway through.
• Crack some eggs. Over a small bowl, get the child to hold the egg in one hand, then tap it with a cutlery knife until it just cracks. Then get them to put down the knife and open the egg into the small bowl. You can now check for any bits of shell before tipping it into a larger bowl. Repeat with all the eggs - this should keep them busy.
• Make a batter. Get the child to measure 150ml flour in a measuring jug and tip into a bowl with the mustard powder. Make a well in the centre and beat in the eggs. Measure the milk.
• Pour in the milk. Gradually pour the milk into the batter - get the child to whisk well between each addition - until you have a mix that is the consistency of double cream. Season. Pour the batter back into the jug.
• Sizzle the batter. Remove the sausages from the oven and place on a heatproof surface. Very carefully, and making sure that they don't touch the hot tin, get the child to pour the batter over the sausages and throw a sprig of rosemary into each hole. Only get children aged seven upwards to do this. A grown-up needs to place them back in the oven.
• Cook in the oven. Leave the batter to cook for 15 mins undisturbed. But if your oven has a clear glass door, let the kids watch the batter rise. Remove the tin from the oven. Leave to cool for a few mins, then serve with gravy, mash and vegetables.