Thus far there is no Iron Frog - only naked ambition
(and in the PNG kitchen, naked electric hotplates in lieu of naked flames).
The challenger prepares her offering of Toad in the Hole selecting the micro-toad approach of her childhood.
Ingredients:
1 cup plain flour
2 eggs
1 cup milk
pinch salt
sausages
Method:
Bake sausages in a hot oven.
Meanwhile whisk eggs, milk and salt in a bowl and gradually whisk in the flour. Allow to sit. Melt a small amount if butter in muffin tins. Chop the sausage into toad-size portions (curse a little bit when you burn yourself trying to get the sausages out of the oven) and drop into the tins. Pour batter over toads ...
...and bake in a hot oven til puffed and golden.
Score:
Flavour - 3/5. Would have been better with better quality sausages. Batter was a little on the stodgy side.
Presentation - 3/5. The little toads looked the part - golden on top (maybe a couple more minutes would have been good?) and nicely puffed with toads peeking out of pudding. I had a bit of a problem getting them out of the trays so it's good you can't see their bottoms in the photo. I liked the way I matched the three puddings with two other things to make a trinity of stuff on the plate.
Innovation - 2.5/5. As a child this was a bit of a favourite and I don't recall eating it with anything other than tomato sauce. However, as I did not have any 'dead horse' to hand, I tried to snazz it up by making some onion and capsicum 'jam' (slightly burnt) and serving it with garlicky green beans. The flavours worked pretty well together and if I can work out how to make unburnt jam I reckon it'd be a winner.
Mess - 3/5. I've done worse. And this cleaned up pretty quickly despite me using more dishes than was strictly necessary. Not sure if I lose enviro-points for using a disposable tray - but it did save on the washing up.
11.5/20.
Hmmm. Room for improvement there I think.
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