Milk Toast I

Milk toast is a breakfast food consisting of toasted bread dipped in milk. Milk toast was a popular food throughout the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially for young children and for the ailing, for whom the food was thought to be soothing and easy to digest. Although not as popular

Category: Breakfast  ·  Serves 1

Ingredients

• 1 pint (570 ml) milk, part cream if the person is not forbidden that
• 4 slices good bread, freshly toasted
• Sweet butter, if allowed
• Salt
• Pepper

Instructions

1. Heat the milk to the simmering point.
2. Generously butter the toast slices.
3. Heat a pretty bowl, deeper than it is wide. Break the hot buttered toast into it, pour the steaming but not boiling milk over it, sprinkle a little salt and pepper on the top, and serve at once.

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