French toast

French toast, also known as eggy bread,German toast,gypsy toast,poor knights (of Windsor), or Spanish toast, is a dish made of bread soaked in beaten eggs and then fried.

History and names

The earliest known reference to French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating to the 4th or 5th century; the recipe mentions soaking in milk, but not egg, and gives it no special name, just aliter dulcia "another sweet dish".

Under the names suppe dorate, soupys yn dorye, tostées dorées, and payn purdyeu, the dish was widely known in medieval Europe. For example, Martino da Como offers a recipe. French toast was often served with game birds and meats. The word "soup" in these names refers to bread soaked in a liquid, a sop.

The usual French name is pain perdu 'lost bread', as it is a way to reclaim stale or otherwise "lost" bread. It may also be called pain doré 'gilded bread'. The term pain perdu was formerly used metaphorically to mean sunk costs.

A fourteenth-century German recipe uses the name Arme Ritter ("poor knights"), a name also used in English and the Nordic languages. Also in the fourteenth century, Taillevent presented a recipe for "tostées dorées".

French Toast (band)

French Toast is a band from Washington, D.C., formed in 2001 as a duo consisting of James Canty and Jerry Busher. They added a third member, Ben Gilligan, in 2005. Dischord's website has James Canty credited with guitar, vocals, keyboards and drums, and Jerry Busher is credited with bass, drums, vocals, and keyboards. However, all three members rotate instruments when the group is playing live. They released the Bugman EP in 2002 and the Hatred Mace single in 2003, both on Arrest Records. In 2005, they released their first LP, In A Cave, on Dischord Records. In 2006, they released their sophomore full-length album, and first as a three-piece Ingleside Terrace, also available on Dischord Records.

Discography

  • Ingleside Terrace LP (2006)
  • In A Cave LP (2005)
  • Hatred Mace Single (2003)
  • Bugman EP (2002)
  • External links

  • Dischord Records Band Site
  • Official Band Site
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    French Toast

    by: 3rd Bass

    all around the country cost to cost
    people say what you like most
    i don't want to brag i don't want to bost
    i always tellum i like toast
    yeah toast
    yeah toast
    i get up in the morning about 6 am
    have a lil jelly have a lil jam
    take a peace of bread in the slot
    push down the leaver and the whires get hot
    you get toast
    yeah toast
    yeah toast
    now theres no seekret to toasting perfection
    there is a dile on the side and you make your selection
    push to the dark or the ligth and then
    if it pops to soon just press down again
    make toast
    yeah toast
    ungh toast
    when the first cave man drove in from the drags
    didn't know what would go with the bakon and the eggs
    must have been a genus got it in his head
    plug the toaster in to the wall buy a bag of bread
    make toast
    yeah toast
    ugh toast
    (french words)
    oh wii bonjor mor covancan
    on conrus concav
    oie mosharie th'Eiffel Tower
    oui Marie bug Bonsoir monsowa
    French toast
    French toast
    from the bottome of the bob and tom show
    YEAH TOAST
    TOAST




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