gas-house egg

plural gas-house eggs

1. alternativeAlternative form of gashouse egg.

   Cooking is very popular but I don’t cook, unless you count gas-house eggs.

   2001 October 27 – November 2, John Peel, Radio Times, →ISBN; republished in “WI”, in The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music, Bantam Press, 2008, page 339

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   Oscar, he of Waldorf-Astoria fame, would be (or should be) proud to serve the following gas-house egg recipe we’ve heard from one of the culinary artists of this city: Take a slice of bread, pinch out the center, put in a frying pan with melted butter (or a reasonable amount thereof) and pour the egg in the hole.

   1943 June 30, Ruth Walker, “The Breakfast Hour”, in The Greenville News, volume LXIX, number 181, Greenville, S.C., page nine

   […] she had breakfast well on the way when he returned—“gas-house” eggs (fried in the center of slices of bread punched out with a water glass) and crisp bacon.

   1950 February, Theodore Sturgeon, “The Dreaming Jewels”, in Fantastic Adventures, volume 12, number 2, page 59, column 1

   “Mama’s making gas-house eggs, ’Nessa,” said Danny, cutting into a slice of melon. “Come and eat them before they’re cold,” Annie prompted. Vanessa slid into her seat at the table. “What are gas-house eggs?” Annie served her two from the cast iron skillet. “Oh, sure, we used to call ’em bull’s-eyes.”

   1984, Lynn Cartier, Intimates, Dell, →ISBN, page 114

   On the morning after Edith Campbell’s lawn party, Jed quietly dressed in his work clothes and decided to introduce Micaela to gas-house eggs. After cooking the bacon, he made a little-larger-than-yolk-sized hole in a piece of bread. He laid the bread in the skillet and let it soak up the bacon grease, then cracked an egg into the center of the hole.

   2007, Wallace Westfeldt, Limestone Concerto, Boulder, Colo.: MudBug Press, →ISBN, page 132

   After Lemus, came a breakfast of gas-house eggs—after eleven years, I was finally tired of Cheerios. Gas-house eggs consisted of a piece of bread from which the center had been cut out and replaced by an egg that was then fried to taste. I wasn’t up to drinking coffee, so, argh, I washed the gas-house eggs down with a pint of milk, whole milk.

   2007, Jerry Tovo, The Bible Reading Contest, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 232