Ingredients.
3-4 eggs
1 pint of milk
a teaspoon of cinnamon
6 slices of bread
butter.
Today is National French Toast day,
eggy bread or gypsy toast some say,
mix egg,cinnamon and milk,
then place in a shallow tray.
Melt some butter in a pan,
with the mixture coat the bread,
then fry until it's golden brown,
top with syrup or fruit instead.
The earliest mention of French toast is in a collection of Latin recipes called the Apicius from the 4th or 5th century, there it mentions soaking bread in milk and egg then frying. In 15th century England, under the rule of Henry V , a version of French toast called "pain perdu" or lost bread was extremely popular, it was called lost bread because stale or hard bread was always used. One theory of who invented French toast relates to an innkeeper in Albany New York called Joseph French, he created the dish in 1724, advertising it as French toast but he forgot to put the apostrophe.
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