French toast
French toast with toppings.
Meaning
Noun
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Origin
- First recorded use in 1660, in a recipe without eggs
- {{cite-book
- |year=1660
- |author=Robert May
- |title=The Accomplisht Cook
- |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22790
- , in the current sense from 1870s
- {{cite-web
- |title=Is French Toast Really French?
- |author=Brendan Koerner
- |year=2003
- |work=Slate
- |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/09/is_french_toast_really_french.html
- |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104845/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/09/is_french_toast_really_french.html
- |archivedate=4 March 2016
- . The common French name for the dish is pain perdu.
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