Here is the recipe for Grama's Famous French Toast.
If Grama isn't your Grama you can call her "Aunt Louise" like everyone else. I know she would not mind.
Everyone loves it. All the kids in the family require Grama to make it every time we go to her house. My kids had me make it for them twice today.
Ingredients:
- 1 - 12 oz can evaporated milk (canned milk, not sweetened condensed milk)
- 1 egg
- a couple shakes of cinnamon
- a dash or two of salt
- Flour until about as thick as pancake batter. I use about 7 heaping tablespoons (I used a real table serving spoon not a measuring tablespoon)
Mix all ingredients together and add flour until desired consistency is reached.
Heat cooking oil in a small frying pan (big enough for a slice of bread plus some wiggle room) until quite hot. The oil should bubble quite rapidly when frying the toast. You can test the oil temperature by adding a drop of batter and seeing if it bubbles. There should be enough oil for the toast to float. The best tasting French toast is made when you fry the toast in bacon grease instead of oil, definitely not politically correct these days, but if you dare to be a rebel it tastes good.
Cut slices of bread in half and dunk them one half slice at a time into the batter. Remove bread from the batter and immediately place it into the hot oil, do the same to the other half slice of bread. Cook until nice and brown then turn slices over and brown the other side. You may have to separate the slices of toast as they fry because the excess batter will tend to cook the slices together.
Grama cooking French Toast video (4.5MB)
Remove cooked slices to a plate with a paper towel on it to absorb excess grease. Dab the top of the slices with a paper towel to remove excess oil. It is a good idea to remove the little pieces of batter that come off the toast and float around in the oil because they will burn and stick to the next slices of toast added to the oil.
Serve immediately while it is hot and crisp. Do not cook up a bunch of toast and let it cool. The cook usually just keeps making batches of two pieces until everyone is full. Each batch only takes a couple of minutes to cook.
Add butter and Grampa's syrup to taste. My Mom likes to add only little salt and eat it that way.
I hope you enjoy making French Toast. Please comment on it in my guestbook if you give it a try.
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