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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.

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