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Is French toast really from France?

Yes and no. Dip in a raw egg and fry in a pan - a very universal solution to the question of how to extend the life of stale bread.

Of course, the French had their own medieval version, called tostees dorees, "golden toast", a name that later turned into pain perdu, "lost bread."

The earliest officially registered recipe for this dish is found in the work of the famous Roman culinary specialist and glutton Apicius, in the XNUMXst century AD. e. In the cookbook The Art of Cooking, he casually mentions "another sweet dish": "Break a loaf of white bread, after removing the crust, into large slices. Soak in milk, fry in olive oil, spread with honey and serve."

In early French documents, one can find references to a recipe called pain a la Romaine, that is, "Roman bread". In general, it turns out "Italian toast." As always, it all depends on where you are at the moment, since the names here are very different: "German toast", "Spanish toast", "American toast" and even "monastic toast".

The term "French toast" (French toast) (or "toast") first occurs in English in 1660 - it appears in the cookbook of Robert May "Refined Cook". In the same year, Gervaise Markham, in her influential book The English Housewife, gives a spicy version of the recipe for "pain perdu". So if we talk about the British, then for them "French toast" really was French - at least at that time.

Sometimes croutons are also called "poor knights of Windsor". Similar variants exist in a number of languages: German (arme Ritter), Danish (arme riddere), Swedish (fattiga riddare), and Finnish (koyhat ritarit) all meaning "poor knights".

One of the theories offers the following version as an explanation: in the Middle Ages, the most expensive part of any banquet was dessert - spices and nuts were brought from afar and cost a lot of money. However, with all his nobility and title, not every knight could afford it, and pieces of black or white bread with honey or jam fried in an egg gave the “poor knights” the opportunity to observe the rules of etiquette without demonstrating their poverty.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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