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German Toast

A historical recipe from Things Mother Used to Make A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years Old and Never Published Befor, by Lydia Maria Gurney (1914).

A historical recipe

Things Mother Used to Make A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years Old and Never Published Before, by Lydia Maria Gurney (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #8542.

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From Things Mother Used to Make A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years Old and Never Published Befor, by Lydia Maria Gurney (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #8542 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8542). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Germany. Associated with Germany by a demonym leading its title: German (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1 Cupful of Milk 1 Egg Pinch of Salt 4 or 5 Slices of Bread Beat together one egg, one cupful of milk, and a little salt.
  2. Dip slices of stale bread into this mixture, and fry on a griddle in butter or pork fat.
  3. Serve hot with butter and maple syrup.