French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried. It is known by several other names in different regions, including eggy bread, Bombay toast, gypsy toast, and poor knights of Windsor.
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Dietary Suitability FAQs
Does French toast have to be made with stale bread?
Stale bread is agreed to be best because fresh bread gets too soggy.
CooksInfo says that all agree stale bread is the best, because fresh bread will get too soggy. There is no general agreement on what kind of stale bread: enthusiasts will propose sourdough bread, while Francophile purists will counter with brioche.
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In Le Viandier, a cookbook written around 1300, the French chef Guillaume Taillevent presented a recipe for tostées dorées involving eggs and sugar.
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In the 15th century, there are English recipes for pain perdu and culinary expert Martino da Como also offers a recipe. In Spain, one of the first recipes was published in 1611 by Francisco Martínez Motiño.
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French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried.
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- Uses Ingredient: Bread, Infobox main_ingredient field: Bread, eggs
Expresses Tradition: Christmas Feast Traditions, Article body
In both Portugal and Brazil, rabanadas are a traditional Christmas dessert.
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Torrija is a similar recipe traditionally prepared in Spain for Lent and Holy Week.
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Torrija is a similar recipe traditionally prepared in Spain for Lent and Holy Week.
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