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trivet commented on the word pain perdu
Delicious!
October 8, 2008
jeffreydavidscott commented on the word pain perdu
Now I know what the French call French toast, and it isn't just "toast."
January 11, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word pain perdu
"In the 1200s the Countess of Leicester bought more than a thousand eggs for an Easter feast for her tenants at Dover Castle and rewarded her labourers and tenants with succulent roast meats and spiced custards or pain perdu--bread dipped in egg, fried in butter and sprinkled with sugar, the forerunner of our eggy bread."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 70
I've not heard of eggy bread, but this bears more than a slight resemblance to what I know as French toast, which also, I was given to understand many years ago, is (or was?) called Mennonite toast in Canada.
January 8, 2017