Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pain perdu (french toast). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pain Perdu (pronounced pan pare-due) literally means "lost bread", referring to this dishes' magical ability to rescue stale bread that would otherwise be lost. It's the original French Toast, and with a crisp buttery exterior and a soft custardy interior Pain Perdu makes for a sinful Sunday morning brunch. This French toast recipe, or pain perdu, is an easy preparation of thickly sliced bread soaked in a sweetened, vanilla-scented custard mixture and then fried in butter to golden perfection.
Pain perdu (French toast) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pain perdu (French toast) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pain perdu (french toast) using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pain perdu (French toast):
- Get 1 loaf French bread
- Prepare 4-6 eggs depending on how much you make
- Prepare 1-2 cups milk x
- Take 1 heaping tablespoon flour
- Get 1/3 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 splash vanilla extract
- Prepare Good pinch of salt
The original recipe is called Pain Perdu in french, which literally translates as "lost bread." Some believe the term refers to using day-old bread that would be thrown out if not repurposed. Pain Perdu is a special New Orleans-style French Toast. The most tender version is made with wide loaves of French or Italian bread. Its great flavor comes from the orange brandy in the batter.
Instructions to make Pain perdu (French toast):
- Slice bread into 1 inch or so slices (I like mine thick)
- Whisk well the remaining ingredients.
- Soak the bread in the custard until completely saturated.
- In a skillet on med-hi heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter and a 1 tablespoon oil. Cook each slice until golden brown on both sides, adjusting the heat if necessary so it doesn't burn.
- The tablespoon of flour helps to produce a very nice crust. Serve with butter and powdered sugar or whatever you like on yours.
Pain Perdu is really the origins of our American "French Toast" recipes, but I find it's even better with a thicker, heartier bread like a baguette. So next time you're entertaining and don't get through a whole baguette, pop those slices in the freezer until you can make pain perdu, it's a fantastic little breakfast treat! Pain perdu is the kind of dish Americans indulge in for breakfast, and the French indulge in for dessert. This custard-laden toast is an absolute dream with fresh strawberries and a drizzle of maple syrup. In New Orleans Louisiana Creole cuisine, French toast is known as pain perdu and is most commonly served as a breakfast dish.
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