Editing Toad in the hole (section)

== Name ==
The dish with left over meat was originally not called toad in the hole. In the 1787 book ''A Provincial Glossary'' by [[Francis Grose]], for example, "toad in a hole" was referred to as "meat boiled in a crust", though a 28 September 1765 passage in The Newcastle Chronicle reads, "No, you shall lay on the common side of the world; like a toad in a hole that is bak'd for the Devil's dinner". The first appearance of the word "hole" in the dish's name, not counting ''Pigeons in a Hole'' found in the cookbook by Hannah Glasse, appeared in the 1900 publication ''Notes & Queries'', which described the dish as a "batter-pudding with a hole in the middle containing meat".<ref name=":0" /> Despite popular belief, there is no record of the dish ever being made with toad.<ref name=":0" /> 

The origin of the name is unclear, but it may refer to the way toads wait for their prey in their burrows, with their heads poking out, just as sausages peep through the batter.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="McCorquodale2009">{{cite book |author=Duncan McCorquodale |title=A Visual History of Cookery |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oY0bAQAAMAAJ |year=2009 |publisher=Black Dog |isbn=978-1-906155-50-6}}</ref> It may also derive from the "[[living entombed animal]]" phenomenon of live frogs or toads supposedly being found encased in stone, which was a popular hoax / false belief of the late 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History |author=Jan Bondeson |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1999 |page=297 |isbn=9780801436093 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsQAc_QlB5cC |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref>

The term is sometimes used for "[[egg in the basket]]" (an egg fried in a hole of a slice of bread).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrett |first=Grant |date=2012-11-17 |title=Names for an Egg in Toast Dish |url=https://www.waywordradio.org/names-for-egg-in-toast-dish/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language |language=en-US}}</ref>