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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
toad-in-the-hole

Now invariably sausages baked in batter, but in the 18C the meat lurking in the hole was good beef. A writer in 1797 argues that for Mrs Siddons to be performing at Sadler's Wells is as incongruous as 'a toad in a hole, putting a noble sirloin of beef into a poor paltry batter-pudding'.
 








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