French Toast With a Twist

The most luxurious food, the french toast. Nothing lifts my mood like a fresh hot french toast on a Sunday morning. Most people may think that french toast originated in France. Not true. In fact it's the Romans who made the french toast that is loved even today. French people devised a method to use stale bread in order to avoid it being wasted. They called it "pain perdu" meaning stale bread. French people usually soaked the stale bread in water and baked it again to make it edible.

Lets move onto our recipe from the history session. This is a regular french bread with few tweaks and a orange sauce instead of old fashioned honey or maple syrup as a topping. This sweet and slightly tangy sauce will sure bring a burst in your mouth.

Ingredients for the toast

stale bread 1 lb

milk 1 cup

2 eggs

sugar 

nutmeg powder 1/2 teaspoon

cinnamon powder 1 teaspoon

a pinch of 

salt

butter to toast

Ingredients for the sauce

2 oranges

2 teaspoons of honey

I always make the sauce first, because the combination of hot toast and sauce at room temperature is more yummy besides we do not want to burn our mouths with hot sauce.  The sauce is very simple to prepare. You just have to boil the orange juice with little bit of pulp till it thickens. The pulp will help thicken the sauce easily while adding some texture to it. Remove it from the stove once thickened. Honey will lose its flavor and vitality if it becomes too hot or boils so we will add it once our orange syrup cools down to room temp. Mix honey and orange syrup together. Our orange sauce is ready. So simple and easy eh?

 Now for the toast whisk the eggs in a bowl. Add milk sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and pinch of salt to whisked eggs and whisk again till the sugar is dissolved. Milk should be slightly cold, this will make the french toast much fluffier. Before we begin making toasts, we will first put a dollop of the egg mixture onto the pan. This will help in two ways. One to know the temp of the pan and the other it's sweetness. Once the egg mixture is set remove it from the pan and taste it for sweetness. Add more sugar if you need. Once the pan is hot enough we will begin making toasts. Pat some butter onto the pan. Soak the slice of bread on each side for 10 secs in the egg mixture. Put the slice of mixture on the pan and increase the heat. topple it onto the other side till both sides are golden brown. Continue till you finish all the bread slices.

Serve immediately and enjoy.