On 1/24/2013 2:40 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
> On Jan 24, 10:22 am, James Silverton >
> wrote:
>> On 1/24/2013 11:06 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:> In my family, we mixed eggs and milk and soaked the bread in that. To
>>> do it right, you fry the bread in bacon grease. To eat it, we would
>>> spread the toast with butter and sprinkle salt on it and eat it. I
>>> never heard of syrup or powdered sugar or the like until I was in
>>> college. How do you fix your French Toast?
>>> Janet US
>> I like French Toast but I wouldn't use bacon grease for sweet toast.
>> Butter or olive oil in a non-stick pan would be how I'd do it. I would
>> also use vanilla and sugar in the egg mixture and eat it with maple
>> syrup. I sometimes do make French Toast without sugar and eat it with
>> ketchup!
>>
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>> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)
>>
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> I don't get why you wouldn't use bacon grease for French toast. Maple
> syrup spilling over onto bacon is delicious, so bacon grease would be
> delicious for French toast served with syrup. ;-)
>
> N.
To each their own of course but I don't usually like a combination of
sweet and salt. I did like the taste of pit barbeque, Maryland style,
but I discovered long ago that the combination of sugar, salt and fat
actively nauseates me.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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