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Biscuits, Toad-in-a-Hole

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Cut
  2. Water
  3. Biscuits
  4. a pound of sweet
  5. Sugar
  6. Dried cherry
  7. Bitter almonds
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Beat a pound of sweet, and an ounce and a lialf of bitter almonds to a fine smoot.li paste, moisten with water, and mix tlie paste, which should not be too tliin, with a pound and a quarter of Lisbon sugar.
  2. Lay a slieet of writing-paper on your baking-plate, and wafer-paper on that;
  3. lay the biscuits about the size of a half-crown piece ;
  4. put_ a dried cherry in the middle ofeacli ;
  5. sift sugar over and bake them in a moderate oven.
  6. When done, cut the wafer-paper round, but do not take it away.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve