Eggy bread - how come I’ve never made it before?

Also called French toast

How have you missed it ? used to be my kids and grandkids favourite (mine too)

It was staple food (along with porridge) for breakfast, dessert or snacks in this house - with a hoard of hungry children to feed. We had the savoury, cheesy version and the sweet (jam or maple syrup) one. My Indian friend calls it sweetbreads, something quite different here. She puts sugar in with the eggs, whereas I made it plain.

I was introduced to this by a French friend when we were on holiday many years ago . Our young children loved it. The French “boule” bread makes delicious eggy bread .

My mum used to make it. French toast. Never ever sweet! Very tasty savoury plateful.

I have been having it since I was a child. I often have it for lunch, when my appetite is poor. Definitely never the sweet version.

I love it but it’s one of those things I just rarely think to do, this thread has set me off though.

great for using up older bread, I also use cheese and mustard

I used to make it for the DC (and me) but haven't made any for years.

Time to try it again

I make eggy bread regularly, DP likes it with fried tomatoes.

Love eggy bread with bacon and maple syrup - but only now and again.

French toast has been a favourite here for years. Sometimes with gruyère and a touch of mustard mixed through cut to make a sandwich. GD2 likes it with….tomato sauce, yuck.

Eggy bread was my DS's piece de resistance after he learned how to cook it at Scout camp! Every now and again I make it for lunch and reminisce!

We used to have French toast with syrup as a pudding, really delicious!

I never get the amount of egg to bread right and end up cutting an extra slice in half to use up the last of the egg mixture.

We called it French Toast in Scotland. Husband is English and it is eggy bread.

We call it Batman toast. Only way we could gerDS to eat it.

Love it with caster sugar.

cinnamon caster sugar

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We called it French Toast in Scotland. Husband is English and it is eggy bread.

Agree on the french toast in Scotland. For dipped slices of bread only. If I made jam pieces and dipped and fried them for the children we called them “poor knights of St George” or just poor knights. I don’t know why!

Love French toast, they add cinnamon on the continent….yuck!

Eggy bread is savoury
French toast is (usually) sweet

I love cinnamon but not in savoury dishes.

Up here French toast is always savoury. None of your southern softy sweet eggy nonsense for us!

Welsh rarebit savoury, eggy bread sweet, with cinnamon- for us.