Old fashioned Pain Perdue

[ScubaLatt]

Cooked my dad's old fashioned Pain Perdue this am. For those who don't know. Pain Perdue means French Toast.

Recipe:

4-5 slices bread
4 eggs, scrambled
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup sugar
Butter

Mix all ingredients except for bread and butter, and put in shallow bowl. Heat pan and soak 1 piece of bread at a time, turning over to coat both sides. Don't soak too long or else you'll break bread apart. Put 1/2 teaspoon butter in pan and melt just prior to putting on bread. Cook over medium heat about 2 minutes per side until golden brown.

[Smalls]

Looks awesome. Love a little pain Perdu. I always heard the translation meant "lost bread" though. The reason was they used the stale leftover bread, because it would take up more milk or egg, whatever you used, and the bread wouldn't fall apart. That's why I always leave my French bread out overnight after slicing it. It gets a bit stale and holds more of the batter.

[ScubaLatt]

Yes the literal translation is lost bread but most folks use the term French toast interchangeably. I have had both and pain Perdue is much better, IMO.

[Smalls]

Originally Posted by ScubaLatt

Yes the literal translation is lost bread but most folks use the term French toast interchangeably. I have had both and pain Perdue is much better, IMO.

Oh no doubt. Love me some pain perdu. Now I'm hungry for some. Gonna have to go get a loaf of French bread now.

[T-TOP]

Growing up french toast was regular toast with butter, sugar, and cinnamon on it. Lost bread was pain perdu. I was confused when I heard people refer to pain perdu as french toast.

[Cappy]

Yall say they used stale bread cause it worked better but I would like to disagree. They used stale cause they had stale and tried to find ways to make it more appetizing, and turn it into breakfast. So they came up with pain per lost french toast or what ever ya walla call it. Same reason they used stale bread to make bread pudding the fresh bread was eaten as is. The stale was used to make stuff and there fore not waste it. You wouldn't make stuff like bread crumbs outa fresh bread ya save the fresh for samages

[Reefman]

Drizzle a little Steen's syrup on top of that!

[LPfishnTIM]

my grandma and mom did this a lot when I was growing up, but she pain perdue was pronounced like pah pah due!

[Cappy]

Yep, das how we say it.

[toolpush]

Gonna make some in the morning. Thanks for the recipe.


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Originally Posted by Reefman

Drizzle a little Steen's syrup on top of that!

10-4, just not the same without Steen's.