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• porsi: Serves 4

Bahan-bahan

3 tbsp vegetab oil, beef dripping or lard

8 sausages

2 eggs

100g plain flour, sifted

90ml whole milk

90mI dark beer

1 tbsp wholegrain mustard

To serve

Gravy

Mashed potato

Peas

Petunjuk

1 Preheat the oven to 220C/200C fan/pas mark 7. Put hal of the oil, dripp ng or lard in a pasting tin and place in the oven to heat up until very hot.

2 Heat the remaining oil in a pan over a medium heat. Brown the sausages on all sides.

3 Place the eggs in a large bowl and beat until thick. Beat in the flour and milk bit by bit until smooth, then stir in the beer and mustard. Leave the batter to sit for 15 minutes.

4 Once the sausages are brown all over and the batter has rested, take the roasting tin from the oven. Immediately pour in the from the sausage pan, followed by the batter which should sizzle as it hits the tin. Add the sausages, spacing them out evenly, and return the tin othe oven.

5 Bake the toad for 35 minutes or batter is golden brown and puffed immediately with gravy, mash and peas