Meatless Monday

We made:

 French Toast

from this cookbook:

Yummy!!!!

From the Breakfast Book:

French toast is so good that you forget how economical it is.  The french don't call this French toast.  They call it pain perdu or "lost bread," because it is a way to use up leftover bread you would otherwise lose - the only bread you've got on the baker's day off.  French toast is actually better if the bread is a little old or sliced and dried out overnight.

French Toast

3 eggs

3/4 cup milk, light cream, or heavy cream

salt to taste

6 slices bread (preferably a dense homemade type; typically white, but try rye or whole wheat too)

4 tablespoons of butter

Stir the eggs, milk, and salt briskly in a bowl with a fork until well blended.  Strain the mixture through a sieve(I did not do this I just poured it into the shallow bowl) into a shallow bowl in which you can easily dip a slice of bread.  Dip both sides of each bread in the batter and place the slices on a piece of waxed paper.

Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a skillet big enough to hold 3 slices at once.  Fry the bread over medium heat until very lightly browned, turning once.  Keep the cooked slices warm in a 250 F oven while frying the other three in the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter.  Serve warm with sprinkled confectioner's sugar.