egg-in-the-basket

egg-in-the-basket (plural eggs-in-the-basket)

1. Alternative form of egg in a basket: synonym of egg in a hole.
   • 2000 April 15, Laura Ustaszewski, “Cracker Barrel aims for April 24 opening”, in The Delaware Gazette, 183rd year, number 5, Delaware, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:

     Cracker Barrel also features a full breakfast menu. It includes biscuits and gravy, blackberry pancakes and eggs-in-the-basket, which features two slices of sourdough bread grilled with an egg in the middle and served with bacon or sausage.

   • 2010 November 10, Johnathan L. Wright, “Gastropub/Basque touches, local ingredients, 160+ beers”, in Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nev., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4E, column 2:

     Cowboy eggs and steak feature rich, free-range duck eggs from Fontana Farms of Reno fried inside sliced sourdough. The dish, from the restaurant’s Sunday brunch menu, is Ugalde’s take on eggs-in-the-basket.

   • 2013, Heather Arndt Anderson, “Around the World in a Meal”, in Breakfast: A History (AltaMira Studies in Food and Gastronomy), Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 67:

     Since the early 1900s, children in England, the United States, and Canada have enjoyed a breakfast called eggs-in-the-basket, also known as egg-in-the-hole, among myriad other names.

   • 2019 January 18, Jimi Famurewa, “Jimi Eats World: Jimi Famurewa finds sparky service at Spuntino Heathrow — but the food has yet to take off”, in Laura Weir, editor, ES Magazine, London: Evening Standard, →OCLC, page 57, column 3:

     My truffled egg toast (normally a legendary luxe-filth spin on egg-in-the-basket) arrived as a sad, strangely cold brick of bread bearing a honking, gluey duvet of melted fontina/Gruyère mix and an oil-splashed egg.