Today I spent my day out but I did wake up early and made breakfast. I made typical French toast!! We Indians take great pride in inventing our own food, but this one is a special one. Though most of us think that this dish was invented by Indians and is found only in India, we really dont know why its called French by the way.So I did a little research on the subject.
French toast, that bit of gastronomical yumminess that is fried egg/bread combo, is an old dish. In fact, it predates the founding of France!!! And its called French??!! Really!
According to the Apicius, a collection of recipes from the early 5th century AD, the dish we now know as the French toast existed as early as the age of the Roman Empire. In their style of French toast, called Pan Dulcis, Romans would soak bread in milk (and sometimes also egg) mixture, then fry it in oil or butter.
In the 15th century English court of Henry V, a version of the French toast called "pain perdu" or "lost bread" was the culinary rage. Then, it was called "lost" bread because the recipe called for soaking hard or stale bread in a mixture of milk and egg, then frying it. Pain perdu is what the French call French toast today.
So, if the French did not invent the modern French toast, who did? According to legend, it was an Albany, a New York inn keeper by the name of Joseph French. He created the dish in 1724, and advertised it as "French Toast" because he was grammatically inept and forgot the apostrophe.Wow!! That's news!
So all those who have seen our beautiful Kangna Ranaut telling us "French toast" is typical only in India, now know the real thing.
But unfortunately, there was ongoing power cut trouble so couldnot eat it warn enough. Its terribly cold out here and food like this have to be eaten hot.Still Ma and I ate the cold slices. :(
Made Kyra eat her's too, by the way. And she had her egg too. For lunch, again our maid, Mona had made something. So I ventured for dinner, and made "Mutton Seekh Do Pyaza" and it was hot and spicy.
Everyone loved it, but everyone had a runny nose afterwards.. LOL
Mutton Seekh Do Pyaza had Mutton Seekh Kebabs, onions, Capsicum, tomatoes and peas. I stir fried all the veggies after slicing and chopping them, Then added basic Indian spices, salt, chilli powder, chat masala and then tomato sauce. Stir fried some more and then ready. One quick dish!! :P
Thinking of tomorrow. Buffering..buffering...suspenseeeeee
Happy Feasting!
:)
French toast, that bit of gastronomical yumminess that is fried egg/bread combo, is an old dish. In fact, it predates the founding of France!!! And its called French??!! Really!
According to the Apicius, a collection of recipes from the early 5th century AD, the dish we now know as the French toast existed as early as the age of the Roman Empire. In their style of French toast, called Pan Dulcis, Romans would soak bread in milk (and sometimes also egg) mixture, then fry it in oil or butter.
In the 15th century English court of Henry V, a version of the French toast called "pain perdu" or "lost bread" was the culinary rage. Then, it was called "lost" bread because the recipe called for soaking hard or stale bread in a mixture of milk and egg, then frying it. Pain perdu is what the French call French toast today.
So, if the French did not invent the modern French toast, who did? According to legend, it was an Albany, a New York inn keeper by the name of Joseph French. He created the dish in 1724, and advertised it as "French Toast" because he was grammatically inept and forgot the apostrophe.Wow!! That's news!
So all those who have seen our beautiful Kangna Ranaut telling us "French toast" is typical only in India, now know the real thing.
But unfortunately, there was ongoing power cut trouble so couldnot eat it warn enough. Its terribly cold out here and food like this have to be eaten hot.Still Ma and I ate the cold slices. :(
Made Kyra eat her's too, by the way. And she had her egg too. For lunch, again our maid, Mona had made something. So I ventured for dinner, and made "Mutton Seekh Do Pyaza" and it was hot and spicy.
Everyone loved it, but everyone had a runny nose afterwards.. LOL
Mutton Seekh Do Pyaza had Mutton Seekh Kebabs, onions, Capsicum, tomatoes and peas. I stir fried all the veggies after slicing and chopping them, Then added basic Indian spices, salt, chilli powder, chat masala and then tomato sauce. Stir fried some more and then ready. One quick dish!! :P
Thinking of tomorrow. Buffering..buffering...suspenseeeeee
Happy Feasting!
:)
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