{"id":28022,"date":"2013-11-18T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=28022"},"modified":"2013-11-14T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:25:30","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-french-french-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-french-french-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How French is French toast?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Toast<\/a>The history of French toast, like the food itself, is rich but not very transparent. Similar recipes date all the way back to ancient Greece. There is written record of the food in medieval England, but with a French name: pain perdu<\/i>. That title, which means \u201clost bread\u201d in reference to how battering could make a stale loaf palatable, is still used in America\u2019s Cajun country. When the term specific phrase \u201cFrench toast\u201d first appeared in the 1660s, it was referring to a cooked bread that had been soaked in wine and fruit juice, rather than an egg dip. And when the dish as we know it now started to grow in popularity in 19th century America, it was just as likely to be known as \u201cGerman toast,\u201d \u201cSpanish toast,\u201d or simply \u201cegg toast.\u201d It is generally agreed, however, that the all-American version of the food\u2014a New York innkeeper named Joseph French invented the recipe in 1724 and named it after himself\u2014is unlikely to be true.<\/p>\n

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