Toasts French - simple, tasty, nutritious
One of the most famous long-living productsis the bread. The first bread was a randomly baked gruel from water and cereals. The resulting cake came to people's liking. Bread was prepared by people of different cultures and religions, from Sumerians barley cakes were the basis of food, and Egyptians ate cakes that. And now at different nations there is a simple and very similar bread: in Mexico it is called "tortilla", in India - "chapati". In Scotland, oat cakes are very popular, and the North American people have corn cakes.
Modern bakeries produce dailya lot of various bakery products, and many of us, going to the store and seeing all this odorous variety, can not restrain themselves from buying more and more. As a rule, all this can not be eaten and a lot of hard bread remains, you can prolong the life by preparing a casserole, tasty toast, toast in French or simply drying biscuits.
There are several rules for preserving bread:
1. To avoid the appearance of mold, it is necessary to clean the breadbox once a week and wipe its inner surface with a weak solution of vinegar.
2. Put a piece of peeled potatoes, sugar or sliced apple in the breadbox, you will help the bread stay fresh longer.
3. Make stale bread more tasty if you hold it for several minutes over the steam.
4. If you store the bread in the freezer in a plastic bag, it will be fresh even after a month.
As you know, a healthy and delicious breakfast isthe best way to cheer yourself and your family. A wonderful option for breakfast, which will please both children and adults are toasted French. Many housewives will be surprised to hear that each of them often cooks these very French toasts, the recipe of which is very simple and has many variations.
In English, the term "french toast"French toast or "toast" first appeared in 1660 in the cookbook "Gourmet Cook" by Robert May. French toasts are sometimes called "poor knights", in some languages there are similar variants, in Danish it is "arme riddere", in German - "arme Ritter", in Swedish "fattiga riddare", in Finnish "koyhat ritarit". This name is explained by the fact that in the Middle Ages the most expensive dish of the banquet was a dessert of nuts and spices brought from afar and costing very much. Despite their noble title, not all knights could afford such a dessert, but pieces of white or black bread, fried in eggs and smeared with honey, jam or jam, gave them the opportunity to comply with all the rules of etiquette, while not demonstrating their poverty.
In order to prepare French toast, youthe following ingredients will be needed: white or black bread (can be stale) - 4 slices, eggs - 2 pcs., milk - 200 ml., vanilla essence - 0.5 teaspoons, butter - 40 g., cinnamon, sugar, maple syrup, fruit or berries for decoration.
Method of preparing French toast.
Add milk to eggs, sugar, vanilla essenceand cinnamon, all beat well with a corolla. Heat the butter in a frying pan. Each slice of bread dipped in a milky egg mixture and fry on both sides with hot butter until golden brown. Then you need to put the toast on a plate, pour it with syrup and decorate with fruit.
To decorate French toasts can be any berries andfruits, as well as nuts, raisins, dried fruits and candied fruits. And to make them more interesting and attractive, you can cut flowers, rhombs, hearts, etc. with the help of molds. If you do not have special molds, you can cut a circle with a knife or with the help of the most ordinary glass. The most delicious of all is toasts fresh, but if a few are left, they can be heated in a microwave oven.
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