Sometimes I wonder how some meals get their names. French toast and the world renowned English breakfast start becoming interesting and worthy of note from their unique names. Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and look into the history of these two break fast options before we delve into the preparation/ technical know hows of these meals.
Brief History of French toast
Would it shock you to know that french toast actually never originated from France? It rather has its roots deeply seated in Rome. I know, I was shocked when I got the info too.
The first known recorded recipe for French toast originates from Rome and this was around 300 A.D. The Roman author Apicius included it in his cookbook titled “Cooking and Dinning in imperial Rome”
Contrary to Popular opinion, the French had nothing to do with the invention of this recipe, however popular in France. It was Americans who gave the name “French Toast” to this dish because French Immigrants in America made the dish popular.
This meal has now spread beyound the shores of Rome and even France, and it is a celebrated breakfast world wide.
Brief History of the English Breakfast
The first time I heard someone ask if I wanted the English breakfast, I burst out laughing. I was confused on why this particular breakfast was language specific, however, after some reflection and better understanding I realized that it was so called because this breakfast originated from England, as far back as the 15th century in an English institution known as the gentry.
The gentry were considered to be a distinct social class, which comprised of people with ‘noble and distinguished blood’, landowners and ‘genteel’ families of long descent, this privileged layer of society also counted as senior members of the clergy and the relatives of titled families within its ranks.
They were famous for their breakfast feasts, and the breakfast table served as an opportunity for them to display their wealth.
French Toast {How to make}
Ingredients
- 2 Robust slices of bread}
- 15mls Full cream liquid Milk
- 8g Butter {Unsalted}
- 1 large Egg
- Parsley flakes (1 tsp)
- Cinnamon (1tsp)
- Fruits {Berrries} (15g)
- Greek youghurt as topping (2tbs)
STEPS
- Break your eggs into a bowl and follow up by pouring in your full cream liquid milk
- Beat the eggs and milk lightly for about One minute and proceed to adding in your parsley flakes and a pinch of cinnamon
- Combine your mixture and set aside
- Now get your robustly sliced bread and put it in your egg/milk mixture, making sure that all sides are well coated
- Arrange your slices of bread on a tray while you prepare to toast
- In a clean pan, cut in a little cube of salted butter in the pan and spread it round the pan with a bread knife
- Place your coated sliced bread into the mix and patiently ensure that both sides of the bread are well cooked, especially because the bread was soaked in raw eggs
- Serve nicely with some fruits i.e Berries or Youghurt toppings if you so desire
Simple breakfast options with Unique names {feat french toast and the renowned English breakfast}
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: French toast
Description
French toast like you have never experienced before! Try this recipe and thank me later fam
Ingredients
Instructions
Break your eggs into a bowl and follow up by pouring in your full cream liquid milk
- Beat the eggs and milk lightly for about One minute and proceed to adding in your parsley flakes and a pinch of cinnamon
- Combine your mixture and set aside
- Now get your robustly sliced sliced bread and put it in your egg/milk mixture, making sure that all sides are well coated
- Arrange your slices of bread on a tray while you prepare to cook
- In a clean pan, cut in a little cube of salted butter in the pan and spread it all round the pan with a bread knife
- Place your coated sliced bread into the mix and patiently ensure that both sides of the bread are well cooked, especially because the bread was soaked in raw eggs
- Serve nicely with some fruits i.e Berries or Youghurt toppings if you so desire
Notes
Breakfast is a super important meal of the day, start well and your day would surely navigate in the positive direction
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Category: TSJ’s food recipes
- Method: fry/toast
- Cuisine: International
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 adult
- Calories: 426.9kcal
- Sugar: 4.7g
- Sodium: 422.9mg
- Fat: 25.7g
- Saturated Fat: 8.3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4.0g
- Trans Fat: 1.9g
- Carbohydrates: 51.7g
- Fiber: 4.7g
- Protein: 31.2g
- Cholesterol: 226.0mg
English Breakfast {How to assemble}
It is pretty easy to assemble an English breakfast, once you discover the basic components of a proper English Breakfast. There are some things that should never be missing such as your bread, eggs, sausages, grilled tomatoes, Beans and bacon. lol
Missing out on any of the above mentioned components definetely cancels the idea of an English breakfast in my head. Now let me list out the components properly for clarity.
Components of an English breakfast
- 4 Nicely toasted Sliced bread and some butter to go with it
- one sliced up, roasted tomato (medium)
- 2 Fried scrambled eggs
- baked beans (4 teaspoons)
- One or two nice franks/ Sausages
- Nicely cooked bacon (2 pieces)
- One or two pancakes with syrup
- Fried mushrooms {optional}
- Some smoothie/ any freshly squeezed juice of your choosing
These my friends, make up a mouth watering and irresistible English Breakfast! Serve each of the above listed nicely in a breakfast tray and your English breakfast is good to go!
