French or Fried Bread - American Recipe

French or Fried Bread

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Bowl, Dover beater, Frying-pan, Long-handled fork

Homemade french or fried bread — a 1920s kitchen staple.

Ingredients

• 4 slices of bread
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup milk
• Salt
• Fat for Frying

Method

1. Beat — the egg in a bowl, and stir the milk and salt in with it.
2. Dip — each slice of bread in the beaten egg and milk.
3. Fry — the slices in hot fat in a frying-pan, until well browned on both sides.

Tags: milk, egg, bread · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Serve plain, or with maple syrup.