How do YOU make basic french toast?

sunandsand

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jettagurl

egg, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, oil.  and fat Texas toast. 

 

meglew

Mix together eggs, a splash of milk, a dash of cinnamon and a bit of vanilla.  Dip bread in egg mixture and cook on the griddle.

AggieCouple

meglew:

Mix together eggs, a splash of milk, a dash of cinnamon and a bit of vanilla.  Dip bread in egg mixture and cook on the griddle.

This, but I use half and half, and a LOT of cinnamon.  I cook on griddle with a lotta buttuh. 

juniper19

Egg, milk, honey, vanilla, cinnamon. I use a lot of honey, but don't serve it with syrup.

CleoKitty

Egg, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla. Soak bread in mixture, cook in butter in the cast iron skillet. Serve with maple syrup.

FWIW my kids don't really like french toast so it's pretty rare that I make it. I like it best though made with stale challah bread- yum!

sunandsand

regular sandwich bread or special thick bread?

Littlejen22

Egg, milk and cinnimon.

CleoKitty

sunandsand:

regular sandwich bread or special thick bread?

Usually a loaf of leftover french bread, something like challah from the local bakery, etc. Never just plain sandwich bread although I suppose that would be fine too. 

+AlternatelyEgotisical+

Egg, milk, vanilla, lots of cinnamon.  I use thick multigrain bread and dip in and cook with butter.  I don't serve it with syrup -- I butter it while it's still hot and then sprinkle white sugar over it so it soaks into the melted butter.  OMG.  SO GOOD.  (this is how I grew up with it.  I had no idea people even put syrup on it until I spent the night with a friend and her family served it that way.  I thought it was so weird.)

If I don't have multigrain bread, I'll do french bread or Texas toast.

AggieCouple

sunandsand:

regular sandwich bread or special thick bread?

 

For the griddle, I use whatever I have on hand: leftover French bread, or home made sandwich bread, whatever.  I don't use commercial sandwich bread; I find the thick sponginess doesn't soak up the liquid deeply.  I also like to use raisin bread for myself (no one else likes it).  You need something with a lot of holes.  For baked FT, I use challah.

I forgot, I also put in sugar.  I use this recipe for the batter only:

 https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Texas-Style-Cinnamon-French-Toast-646

but I just dip the bread in right before it goes on the griddle, not overnight.  I also find that the cinnamon gets soaked up by the first slice, so I pour a little batter into a shallow bowl, sprinkle with cinnamon, and place the bread on top.  When I flip it, I sprinkle more cinnamon on top of the surface of the batter.  We like a lot of cinnamon ;o)

Amaryllis619

meglew:

Mix together eggs, a splash of milk, a dash of cinnamon and a bit of vanilla.  Dip bread in egg mixture and cook on the griddle.

and I like mine with peanut butter and syrup...

lollitots

Pretty much like everyone else, except I sprinkle the cinnamon on one side when I first set it on the grill. I use whatever bread I have on hand, so it is usually whole wheat sandwich bread. I like french bread or raisen bread.

Mc_Newlywed

Eggs, milk vanilla. Whatever bread I have on hand.  

Put it on the griddle w/ butter flavored Pam spray.  

Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon/sugar mixture while it cooks (I keep a salt shaker with this in my panty for quick cinnamon toast).   

glasgow_girl

Pretty much the same basics as everyone else, but I put it in the waffle iron instead. It fluffs up and just looks cooler than regular French Toast.

 

peekaboo716

Interesting that no one uses any nutmeg. I do the usual (egg, milk, cinnamon), but add in a little nutmeg. Always cooked on the griddle with butter.

KimW

Eggs, flour, melted butter, vanilla, cinnamon, milk.  I got the idea to use flour from a foodie blog, and I love it...I always found french toast to eggy before, and this makes them perfect.