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French Toast

4 servings

Ingredients

• white bread, crust removed, in finger-thick slices (as needed)
• 0.5 l milk
• 3 pcs eggs
• cinnamon (a little)
• 0.5 tbsp sugar
• 1 pcs egg, beaten, for breading
• butter, plenty, for frying (a little)
• sugar, for sprinkling (a little)
• compote, for serving (as needed)

Instructions

1. Use white bread, remove the crust, toast and crush it.
2. Cut the bread into finger-thick slices.
3. Whisk the milk with the 3 eggs, a little cinnamon, and sugar, and let the slices soften in it.
4. Dip the slices in beaten egg, press them into the toasted crust on both sides, and fry them in hot butter until crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
5. Arrange with compote and sprinkle with sugar.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.