Toad and Frog

There is a breakfast dish that my father taught me how to make when I was a child. He called it “toad-in-the-hole.” You take a slice of bread, cut a hole in the middle of it with a drinking glass, fry it in some butter, drop a raw egg in the hole, cook until it’s brown on the bottom, then flip the whole thing and fry it until the other side turns brown. I recently taught my Faithful Reader how to make it. Now he has his own way of doing it. He fries the cut-out piece too, puts it on top of the cooked egg, and calls it “frog-in-the-hole-with-a-door.”