French Toast Variations
Dec. 24th, 2007 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebFrench toast was first developed as a way to use up stale bread. Or at least this is what I've heard. Just dip it in eggs mixed with milk, that moistens it, then heat it to cook the egg, and now butter melts on it.
If you try to make it with fresh bread, it better be a dense bread or you better not leave it sitting in the egg/milk mixture very long or else you will not be able to get the bread into the pan in one piece.
Restaurants trying to make their French toast special have varied the recipe. I'm sure plenty use cream instead of milk. You can add vanilla and cinnamon; I've also heard of using other extracts such as lemon.
My college cafeteria once served "sputnik," which was "French toast with a surprise inside." It looked like two pieces of French toast stuck together. Inside was ice cream. Yum.
There's also a place that does the same thing only with a cream cheese filling, I think.
And you can dip something besides bread into the egg mixture. I have tasted:
* white bread
* whole wheat bread
* raisin bread
* challah
* chocolate chip cherry bread (my personal favorite)
* carrot cake (sans frosting)
* a cinnamon roll
The last I tasted for the first time today. And the cinnamon roll was made with croissant dough. Crazy. Like people ever have stale cinnamon rolls lying around.
If you try to make it with fresh bread, it better be a dense bread or you better not leave it sitting in the egg/milk mixture very long or else you will not be able to get the bread into the pan in one piece.
Restaurants trying to make their French toast special have varied the recipe. I'm sure plenty use cream instead of milk. You can add vanilla and cinnamon; I've also heard of using other extracts such as lemon.
My college cafeteria once served "sputnik," which was "French toast with a surprise inside." It looked like two pieces of French toast stuck together. Inside was ice cream. Yum.
There's also a place that does the same thing only with a cream cheese filling, I think.
And you can dip something besides bread into the egg mixture. I have tasted:
* white bread
* whole wheat bread
* raisin bread
* challah
* chocolate chip cherry bread (my personal favorite)
* carrot cake (sans frosting)
* a cinnamon roll
The last I tasted for the first time today. And the cinnamon roll was made with croissant dough. Crazy. Like people ever have stale cinnamon rolls lying around.