gashouse egg
noun1
Synonym of egg in a hole.
- She [Dorothy Roe] is sure that the original perpetrator of tihs^([sic]) gastronomic wonder was Adolphe Menjou and that in one scene he said, “Now we’ll make Gashouse Eggs,” and proceeded to do so. These Winkeyes, Bullseyes, One-Eyed Connollys or plain Gashouse Eggs are wonderful, particularly during the holidays, served late at night with hot coffee, hot tea, hot chocolate or what you will. What You Need / You start making the Snack by having a lot of sliced bread. Then you cut out the middle of each slice with a small round cookie cutter.1947 December 4, Cecily Brownstone, “Snack-Happy Yule Eats For The Teens”, in Bristol News Bulletin, volume 21, number 8374, Bristol, Va.–Tenn., page eight:
- We made gas[-]house eggs.1959 February 5, “Girl Scout Brownies Meet with Mrs. Herout”, in Bloomfield Monitor, 69th year, number 10, Bloomfield, Neb., page four:
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- Nancy Tucker gave a demonstration on deviled eggs, Linda Williams gave a demonstration on breakfast menus using cereal, Debra Gerrard demonstrated gashouse eggs and Susan Zwahlen gave a demonstration on steam-fried eggs.1970 April 30, “Carbon Cookies 4-H”, in Sun-Advocate, Price, Utah, page 1:
- A special breakfast menu is served beginning at 9 a.m., and the $1.10 special is gas[-]house eggs (hollowed out buttered bread holds the eggs and both are fried).1972 November 9, Dean Trencher, “From My Perch”, in The Ridgewood Herald News, volume 84, number 45, page 15:
- When my kids were little I made them “gashouse eggs.” Take the center out of a slice of bread, making a round hole in the middle.1980, Barbara Edelstein, The Woman Doctor’s Diet for Teen-Age Girls, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 212:
- “Daddy and I have a favorite. Gashouse eggs!” Alice exclaimed, “If you have eggs and bread and butter, I can make them!” […] While she melted some butter in the pan, she scooped out the soft center of each slice of bread, placed the crusts in the pan, and broke an egg into the center of each piece.1981, Henry Denker, “The Warfield Syndrome”, in Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, volume 3, Pleasantville, N.Y.: The Reader’s Digest Association, →LCCN, page 424: