The very sound of french toast, conjures up a smackilicious image of golden toast topped with powdered sugar, cinnamon and a dollop of slowly melting butter.
The origin of this fantabulous breakfast is very humble, unlike its swanky name. Would you believe that French toast was used to salvage stale bread, that had become hard and crunchy? Soaking old bread in a mixture of milk and eggs and frying it was a sure fire way to an appetizing breakfast.
There is also an interesting piece of history about the French toast being known earlier as the German toast, and getting rechristened to French toast, due to the Anti German feeling after World War 1.
That’s enough history, I suppose. Now, getting down to making it:
What you need:
- Eggs - 3
- Milk - 2 tablespoons
- Sugar - 1 or 1 1/2 tablespoons (adjust to taste)
- Vanilla essence - 2 teaspoons
- Bread - 4 slices
- Butter ( as much you would like to slather
) - Powdered Sugar and cinnamon - mix this (for garnish)
How you go about making it:
- Beat the eggs along with the milk, sugar and Vanilla essence. Transfer this into a wide, shallow bowl preferably.
- Heat the skillet. Keep it on medium flame.
- Soak the bread in the beaten mixture for 2 - 3 seconds. If you soak it in too long, the bread falls apart.
- Coat the skillet with as much butter as you would like. Place the bread on the skillet and you can pour the mixture in small spoonfuls over the bread as it is getting done. Turn the bread over on the other side and keep till golden brown.
- Serve piping hot with powdered sugar and cinnamon mix, with a dollop of butter. Alternatively you can serve it with honey or maple syrup.
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Happy French Toasting !
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Krishna wrote,
Yummy! I want to give it a try, but what’s a skillet?
Link | July 30th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Vinita wrote,
Thanks!
Will try this out
Link | July 31st, 2008 at 1:14 am
Sadagopan wrote,
This is not for me!! So much for a bread ?
Link | July 31st, 2008 at 2:48 am
Bhavesh wrote,
I started of reading this thinking, how complicated can a toast be? After all , all I do is put the damn thing into the pop out toaster and have the result with a some orange juice… but then I forgot this is you.. How can things be simple?
Lol, I’ll pass and continue having my own french toast than spend my morning figuring out what you have typed above.! Cheers
Link | July 31st, 2008 at 9:00 am
Hafdís Lilja wrote,
Just saying thanks for some of the information I got from your side.
My english is not very good, icelandic is my language.
Link | August 11th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
sean wrote,
amg, thank you! i would have never thoght of french toast!
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 6:05 am
sean wrote,
thank you for the recipe!!! i am eating them as i speak! mmmmmmm!!!
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 8:00 am
sean wrote,
(my favorite part is the powdered sugar and the cinamon!!!)
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Bronwyn wrote,
I have made this before, but i use brown sugar instead, it adds more colour to it.
Link | October 26th, 2008 at 8:54 am
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Link | May 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
iconoclastes wrote,
Those first couple people that think this is tedious or involved food preparations probably shouldn’t be looking at pages w/recipes on them. Stick to boiling water, and toaster- and microwave-ready prepared foods.
This is a classic recipe, and thank you for taking your time to share it. French toast was the beginning of my cooking career, at age 7. And it never gets old.
BTW, Krishna, a skillet is a pan or griddle. Anything flat, large enough for a few pieces of bread, shallow enough to get in there w/a spatula, and heats evenly.
Link | May 25th, 2010 at 8:16 am