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Pain perdu ("lost bread") is French toast that is made from bread that is too stale to use with meals anymore. The two- to three-day-old bread should be dry but not so dry as to break when sliced. Too dry can be grated, without the crust, to make chapelure, the breading used for both stuffing and breading fried food.
My family recipe follows:
- Warm up half a pint of milk a little, well under boiling point.
- Warm a (traditionally blackened iron) frying pan to low heat.
- Beat a whole egg with some sugar in a soup plate or flat bowl.
- Pour the warm milk in a soup plate, and dissolve some sugar in it.
- Align the two plates with the frying pan, with the egg closest.
- Add some butter to the frying pan, and increase the heat to medium-hot.
- Drop each 1.5-centimeter (0.5-inch) bread slice, with the crust, quickly on the warm milk on both sides, then on the beaten egg also on both sides, and let the excess drip for two seconds before dropping into the pan.
- Repeat until the pan is full, while working quickly to prevent the butter from burning.
- When the first slice is golden brown, turn over all slices to cook on the other side. You may need to add a little more butter at this stage if the first side absorbed it all. Don't skimp on butter since it builds up the golden brown color and great taste.
This dish used to be a favorite for the goûter or quatre-heure (traditional 4 p.m. snack) of kids on Wednesday/Thursday break day from school or on the week-end.
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How do you spell toast in french?
In France: Pain grilléIn Canada: Pain doréPain grille is simply 'toast'. Un pain grille is 'a piece of toast'.Pain perdu is equivalent to what Americans call French toast. It differs in that it may be baked, like a cake. The name 'pain perdu' means 'lost bread'. That's because it's a way to make use of stale bread.
Is French toast really French?
No, it was invented in Belgium. And there were dishes similar to it in ancient times. Since the French buy their bread fresh daily, they do have "pain perdu" or French toast to use the bread which otherwise they would not eat.
Is French toast - French?
Technically yes but the term "french Toast" was developed in America French toast is no more French, than fortune cookies are Chinese. The recipe dates back to medieval times. The English might have learned it from the French, and called it "french toast", but in France the name is "Pain perdu" (lost bread). Originally it was a dish made by poor people, to eat the stale bread.
What does purdu mean in French?
Perdu is the past tense for Perdre, which is-To LoseFor future reference, you can use wordreference.com to figure out what is what in translations. Never use a sentence translator like freetranslation.com.
Is toaster feminine or masculine in french?
In French, the word for toaster is "grille-pain," which is masculine. Therefore, you would use masculine articles and adjectives with it, such as "le grille-pain" for "the toaster."
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