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