Gashouse Eggs
Credit: Steve Giralt
More common names for this easy breakfast recipe are eggs in a pocket, one-eyed jack, and baby in the hole. If you prefer your egg over easy rather than sunny side up, crack it into the hole in the bread right after you put the bread into the skillet.
Slice of bread
2–3 tbsp. butter
1 egg
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1. Begin by using an inverted, sturdy glass 2"–3" in diameter to cut a hole out of the center of the slice of bread. Set bread slice and round cutout aside. Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Pan-toast bread and cutout on 1 side in skillet until golden, 2–3 minutes.
2. Turn bread and cutout over. Melt a small nugget of butter in the hole in the bread, crack egg into hole, and cook until egg is set, 2–3 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with toasted cutout for dipping in the yolk, if you like.
i ate eggs like this as a kid. i grew up in ct, and we called it a gashouse. no one ever seems to know what i am talking about when i mention eggs cooked like this -- it is great to see it here!
my kids love this breakfast. it is fun, but still so fast and easy that they have it often on school mornings.
Thank you, Gashouse Eggs - much better name.
My daughter and I love these. She says, "Dad! Let's have the eggs with the round bread." Now I can say, "Yeah, let's have Gashouse Eggs!" Great childhood memories.
I make mine basically the same, except, once you flip the toast, before you add the egg, I put a little extra butter in the hole, then the egg.
DH topped his with ketchup. I use a little black pepper or Rooster sauce!
For many years I made them for breakfasts on the weekends for my wife and kids. When I was away from home on business trips my wife also made for our kids, they soon started calling the toasted hole a "toast cookie". At 78 we still have them once a week for breakfast.