French Toast II

Cheryl Thebeau-Blevins's Note:

Here's the way French Toast has been made in my family for at least 4 generations - but until I got into high school, we called it "egg-bread", as my back-country French-American grandparents had. Everyone I make it for loves it!

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 loaf Texas toast thick bread , Sliced (1 lb.)
• 1 dozen egg
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon , ground (more if needed)
• to taste butter or to taste shortening , to grease skillet

Directions:

1. Whisk the eggs till frothy.
2. Add remaining ingredients, and mix well.
3. Over medium heat, lightly grease skillet with shortening (butter will burn very quickly, so exercise caution if using butter). I use a paper towel, so I can use it repeatedly, with every 2 or 3 pans of French toast. Dip each slice of bread into the egg mixture, on both sides.
4. Do this quickly, so as not to completely soak the bread.
5. Cook in skillet over med/med-high heat for approx 5 min per side. You may need to flip more than once to get th e desired golden-brown color.
6. Serve with butter and powdered sugar, or preserves (my favorite) or syrup.

Reviews

[Chunky M]

Easy and delicious! I halved the ingredients since it was only for the hubby and me, used regular wheat bread and forgot the vanilla, and it was still very good! Made 10 slices using 6 eggs.

[Melany *]

this is how my dad always made french toast, and i was shocked to hear my bf's parents and everyone else made it differently! i always scale it down to 2 people by using 5 slices bread, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup milk, 2tbsp sugar, 1/2 capful of vanilla, and cinnamon to taste. hope this helps!

[DebM]

Wow!! This was wonderful! I scaled the recipe in half and used regular white bread. And it was enough for me, my DH and my two young sons. It was so good! nice and sweet how we like it! the first thing dh said was "what did you do different, this is great!" Will definatly make again and again!