Oct 02 2008
Sublime Succour, I believe the phrase was…
This is just eggy bread right? So it can’t taste *that* much better than eggy bread, which is pretty awesome, right? Wrong!
- Doughnut French Toast
This is a recipe I’d wanted to make for ages, largely so that I could surprise Dougal by presenting its sweet indulgence to him one night unannounced and have him think me ever so cool. Two things went wrong: firstly, we are at crisis stage with this challenge and so everything is being meticulously planned (we have a special Google Calender for it!) and there is no impromptu any more; secondly, I really thought this ought to be made with pain de mie, particularly as we never have sliced loaf in the house, and that meant asking Dougal to make one.
Somehow I thought this was just going to be like French-style eggy bread (whaddaya mean, French Toast) just sort of eggy and sweet. However, the addition of the milk and the vanilla essence lifted it into a sort of custardy carby plane of uber-indulgence. Yes, it was horrifically calorie and fat laden, but we had had an incredibly pious dainty portion of vegetable only stir fry for our main and it had been very windy so hard work on the bicycle that day….and I enjoyed it so much I don’t care if you think I’m a fatty pie. Did I mention that we had three bits each? Our bread was only small!
We went with Nigella’s suggestion of having this with hot chocolate and I can tell you, this fit the Instant Calmer bill very nicely. I’ve had a fraught fortnight or so (who am I kidding, last two months) and last night I needed this soothing sweet pudding. It didn’t let me down.
I agree with you on the calming effect of this recipe. This is one of the best recipes in the whole book imo! You should try the strawberry sauce to go with it, it is
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!
Maybe I should have this on a daily basis?
Maybe not…
got yer brackets, though
Hurrah for brackets!
Also… I think I’d probably been planning on not really bothering with the strawberry sauce, but with press like that I think I’ll have to! Excellent < g >
I just made this and it’s delicious – but mine didn’t crisp up and I expected it to. Is it mean to go crispy? Was gorgeous though.
i think ours has been fairly soggy whenever we’ve had it. We had a special version recently, made with left over slices of by-then slightly stale Orange Tea Loaf, as made by Dougal. Blimen’ magic!
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How random that just as I re-post this recipe, someone from Poland borrows my photo from the original post! Excellent stuff :o)
Gosh, can you read Polish?
i would point at my ear and make reference to Douglas Adams, but remarkably, BabelFish doesn’t do Polish! Google translate, however….
The article is basically just the recipe, and some of author’s thoughts (cold night, hot food, i think!), but they credit me for the photo they used.
Nice to get the credit :)