What our family calls French toast the French call "pain perdu". Literally this means lost bread. You know, the old, stale, "lost" bread finds new life when soaked in eggs, milk & vanilla and then it's fried in butter. Are your taste buds waking up? We like to make our pain perdu using sliced brioche (a sweet bread sold in all of the grocery stores here). The French usually eat their pain perdu as a dessert sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with jam. However we are Americans and we are addicted to sugar so this is basically a breakfast or sometimes dinner dish for us. Some habits are hard to kick. This morning I fried up a big hot batch of pain perdu and then Clara made Grammie Randall's new syrup recipe. Yum!Buttermilk Syrup
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup buttermilk (you can substitute 1/2 cup milk + 1/2 Tbl. vinegar)
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon soda
Cook above for 5 minutes
Add 1 Teaspoon vanilla and enjoy
I know this recipe is loaded with butter and sugar, but it's soooo tasty. You really only need a few drops to dip with your French toast.
1 comment:
that looks amazing! i think i am going to eat french toast for breakfast. :)
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