Is Toad in the Hole easy to make?

[katierocket]

I have a recipe but I'm a bit scared that the batter bit will be a disaster. Any tips?

yes
what you do is put your oven on to the highest setting
when it's heated up put in your metal roasting tin and a little bit of oil, not olive, for one minute. Put in your sausages and brown them in the oven, turning occasionally for no more than 4 minutes tops.
Then pour in the batter and put in the oven immediately. I would say bake at 3/4 the capacity temperature of your oven for 25-30 minutes

Don't forget the onion gravy and the cabbage or sprouts

thanks sw - I'm paranoid that it'll end up a soggy mess. Is the key the hot oven then? Why not olive oil?

yes the key is the hot oven
olive oil does not have a very high smoking point; it gets smokey before sunflower or canola oil

I made Toad in the Hole for an English themed dinner party his year, we had prawn cocktail to start and trifle for afters.

And warm beer and Mother's Pride spread thick with Country Life. In my dreams

LOL

I made this last night.
Fried off the sausages in a pan, put them into a pyrex dish along with the fat, then poured over the batter.Popped it in the oven for 50mins at 220c.
2 eggs, 4oz flour and half a pint of milk for the batter mix.

mine ended up a soggy mess and no-one would eat it!

if you have Observer Food from Sunday, there was a recipe for it in there (I think) that looked fairly easy to follow

aah didn't know that about olive oil

I feel a bit of pressure but I'm going to give it a go. Wish me luck!

what so no oil Fio?

heat is utterly vital - make sure the oil is as hot as poss when you pour the batter in, and that the dish you're cooking it in is wide and shallow.

I made the mistake of copying a Jamie Oliver photo and making it in a loaf-style cake tin - horribly soggy because it was too deep.

Apart from that, it is easy-peasy .

no oil??

OK, so oil and very hot.

ta everyone

and shut the kitchen door so you don't set the smoke alarm off - or is it just me that does that?

I'm too scared to try it without oil though Fio

Not oil beef dripping please for the true Yorkshire Pudding recipe. You never get it as crispy round the edge with oil and Extra Virgin is not the best to use. And yes the oven has to be about 250c for the best. Put fat in tins(cake tins are good) and then in hot oven until the fat is sputtering smoking pour in batter over sausages and pop into the oven until the pudding has risen and golden with crispy edges. Take out when cooked, drain of fat and put back into oven to crisp again for about a minute. Yorkshire Lass here who was brought up on Yorkshire Pudding and LOVES IT. And so do my two ds's

I do what Fio does and use the fat from the sausages. I'm pretty sure it was a Gordon Ramsey recipe that suggested it. Don't be scared katie

Toad in the Hole is so easy to make and as suzywong is great with onion gravy although am not convinced its toad in the whole weather!

I sometimes ponce it up a bit by wrapping my sausages in pancetta and added a glug of marsala to my gravy.

Ah well it worked and was yum. I agree that could probably have done it just with the fat from the sausages.