French Toast
Homemade French Toast is the world's easiest and most underappreciated breakfast meal. Take bread and dip it in a basic custard dish before toasting it in a pan. It doesn't get any simpler than that. French toast is made by dipping pieces of bread in a batter made of eggs, milk, a little sugar, and flavorings. French toast, like pancakes, is cooked on a griddle.
Ingredients
- 3 Eggs
- 2 oz Sugar
- 6 fl oz Milk
- 2 fl oz Heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- pinch Nutmeg
- 1/2 tbsp Vanilla extract
- Salt
- 6 Cinnamon raisin bread slices about 2 cm thick.
- 1 oz Butter
Instructions
- Beat the milk, eggs, cream, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a mixing bowl until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Soak the bread in the egg mixture for few seconds until the custard is absorbed in to it, but make sure not to leave too long that it's starting to break apart.
- Heat 1 ½ tsp unsalted butter in a large sauté pan and put 2 slices bread in the pan. Brown the bottoms of slices of bread in the pan, it takes about 3 minutes over medium high heat.
- Flip and cook on the other side until it is lightly golden brown. Crunchy outside and fluffy inside.
- Add to a plate and top with fruits, maple syrups, butter or dusted with powdered sugar.
Notes
Bread: You can use white bread, whole grain bread, French bread, or rich egg bread to make specialty variations.
Batter: The normal liquid is milk, which is blended with egg in varying amounts but Cream or sour cream may be included as other variants.
Flavorings. Popular spices include cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg. Other options are powdered anise, grated lemon, and orange rind.
If you like a little bit of caramelized taste you can sprinkle icing sugar on the toast and then cook for 30 sec on both sides.
When making French toast, the most common mistake is not soaking the bread long enough to allow the batter to absorb in. If you just dip the bread in the batter, you'll end up with dry bread with a little egg on the exterior.