One of the new recipes just added is French Toast-Indian Version now this appears to be what I'd call "eggy bread" and my brother would call "Gypsy toast" (no idea why)... but when I read "French toast" it made me think of the very dried out crispy toasted bread that you might use for making little starters or having with soup... so what is it that I'm thinking of then ?

Steve

Steve,

maybe you are thinking of crostini, (although Italian).

I call it eggy bread too, for it is not toast by any definition I know.

And I never understand why the 'Muricans call chips 'French fries', as they originated in Belgium, 'though probably were popularized on the Pont Neuf in Paris.

Maybe there is a suggestion that anything that has dillusions of culinary grandeur just has to be called French, just as things not from India, but used in India, are called 'chini'.

Eggy Bread was one of the key words I had added for search, I will now move it to the title, along with adding Gypsy toast. I haven't heard that one for a long time, had forgotten it completely!

My previous post has disappeared! I was just making the point that French Toast is 'eggy bread' (pain perdu) - what some people call French Toast is actually Melba Toast.

Anyway thanks Mamta for reminding of French Toast. I made it for brunch today and it brought back happy memories - my mother used to make it for me when it was cold, reckoning it would "fill me up" before going to school.

The Indian twists to the recipe make it even better. Real comfort food.

Winton

'Lazy food' for me John, when I am too lazy to cook a proper meal!