Overnight French Toast
- Ready In:
- 8hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
12-16
ingredients
- 1 lb egg bread, firm white bread or 1 lb brioche bread
- 12 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange zest
- 1⁄2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 1⁄4 cups half-and-half
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter
- confectioners' sugar
directions
- Slice the bread into 1" thick serving-size pieces; put them in a single layer on 1 or 2 baking pans.
- Beat the eggs well but not until frothy; add vanilla, sugar, orange peel and nutmeg, and mix; stir in half and half.
- Pour egg mixture over the bread, turning to coat both sides; cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Preheat oven to 150°; In 1 or 2 skillets, melt a bit of the butter over medium heat; fry bread slices, turning once, until golden brown on both sides; add more butter as needed.
- Transfer the cooked slices to a baking sheet and place it in the oven to keep warm; just before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.