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 TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE


 * MATERIALS

¼ pound cold cooked meat (beef, veal, mutton, or lamb)

3 or 4 potatoes

½ cup cold gravy, Soup Stock or

White Sauce No. 2


 * UTENSILS

Meat-chopper

Baking-dish

Tablespoon

DIRECTIONS 
 * 1) Boil and mash the potatoes in accordance with directions on pages 66 and 68.
 * 2) Put the meat through the meat-chopper.
 * 3) Measure out 2 cups of mashed potato and place this in a buttered baking-dish, pushing the potato up around the sides of the dish, and leaving a hole in the centre large enough to contain the meat.
 * 4) Mix the chopped meat with the cold gravy, Soup Stock (page 14), or White Sauce No. 2 (page 150), and put the mixture in the hole, surrounded by potato.
 * 5) Bake in a hot oven for about fifteen minutes, or until the potato begins to brown.