How To Make Cheesy Toad-In-The-Hole

SERVES 4. This is a tasty twist on the traditional sausages baked in a Yorkshire pudding. It can also be an easy labour-saving meal – if you make your batter the day before.

1. Step 1:

   Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7.

2. Step 2:

   Sift the flour into a mixing bowl. Blend in the eggs with a wooden spoon.

3. Step 3:

   Whisk in the milk gradually and continue to whisk until small bubbles appear on the surface of the mixture. Leave to stand while the sausages are prepared.

4. Step 4:

   In a frying pan over a medium heat, lightly brown the sausages all over. Either leave them whole or cut each one in half and brown the centre.

5. Step 5:

   Grease a baking tin or ovenproof dish with lard – this heats to a higher temperature than oil – and arrange the sausages over the bottom of the tin.

6. Step 6:

   Stir half of the cheese into the prepared batter and pour it around the sausages.

7. Step 7:

   Sprinkle the rest of the cheese over the sausage and the batter.

8. Step 8:

   Bake immediately in the preheated oven for 25–30 minutes, or until the pudding has risen around the sausage and is brown and crisp.