Eggy Bread recipe
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“How much do you love me?” I asked.
I was standing under the kitchen table as my mother ironed above on an old folded blanket.
“I love you lots.”
“More than the others?”
The iron thumped and swished above.
“I love you all the same.”
“If you tell me that you love me more, I won’t tell them.”
This was a lie and I knew it.
I had a plan. If my mother admitted that she was fonder of me than my older brother and sister I’d creep out of the kitchen and run down the garden, cutting through the shadows. Then I’d steal up to the thorny door of their blackberry bush camp and shout through the prickly doorway.
“She loves me more.”
My mother resolutely refused to oblige me. But she did make me eggy bread which was a delicious comfort when my siblings wouldn’t include me in their adventures.
We ate this last night. Danny was returning late and wasn’t interested in supper. I was just slicing same of our home cured bacon when he pushed open the front door.
Suddenly he wanted to join my gang.
Comforting Eggy Bread recipe (for 2)
This is sometimes called French Toast or Gypsy Toast and is a great supper snack for children, invalids and people who have already enjoyed a good lunch earlier in the day. It is at its best fried in bacon fat but a tasty slim line version can be made with a little rape seed oil.
This is best made with white bread.
Ingredients:
- 3-4 eggs
- 2 thick slices of white bread (hand cut)
- A dash of milk (about a tblsp)
- A small pinch of salt
- Rapeseed or olive oil and a small knob of butter (to give it that edge).
- A good lash of ground black pepper
- A small dollop of cream if you have it knocking around in the fridge
Method:
- Break the eggs into a bowl and beat to break the yolks. Add the milk, salt, pepper and cream. Beat briefly to combine.
- In a large low sided dish, lay out the slices of bread and pour the raw egg mixture over. Leave to soak for 2-5 minutes and turn the slices over. Let the eggy mixture soak right into the bread.
- Heat the oil/butter combination in a frying pan over a medium heat. When these are hot (but not smoking) add the slices of egg infused bread pour the remaining egg over them and turn the heat down low.
- Turn the bread after 5-7 minutes and leave for a further 4 minutes on the second side.
- Serve on warm plates ideally with grilled tomatoes and bacon.
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I’ve just found your blog and wanted to say that I really like it and I love eggy bread!
Just been reading through the site, there are loads of recipes that I want to try, they look great.
My mum used to make my sister and I eggy bread as a treat sometimes, it is so yummy. I like it with cinnamon too.
Thanks for the great recipes!
ooooooh! We love eggy bread too! Thanks for reminding me, it is one of those easy suppers I forget!
Oh Fiona, It’s happened. I’ve been tagged and I’m passing it on to you.
You know what to do don’t you?
Eggy bread is French Toast to me and Gypsy Toast to my husband, who cooks it for himself quite regularly. This is a dish that I seem to have grown out of and am never tempted to have a portion. My friend used to have it with brown sugar or golden syrup, and once when economising ate it for 5 days on the trot.
Me and my wife are both fans of eggy bread which generally rears its head on a Sunday morning for breakfast. Great little recipe!
I love eggy bread. I like to add a touch of salt to the egg mix and then eat it with maple syrup. Yummy!!!
We have something similar only we call ours French Bread and we serve it with maple syrup and usually have sausages with ours. Usually too sweet for me in the mornings, so may well give your savoury version a try.
Hi Sylvie
Anyone who lies eggy bread is a star! You’ve a great blog – I love Falling Cloudberries too.
Hi Katie
Danny has just been telling me that egy breadis good with cinamon, maple syrp etc. This is a whole new world!
Hi Scott
Danny has yet to ask
Hi Mildred
This is definitely comfort food supper for me!
Thanks for dropping by.
Hi Sally
Thanks for thinking of me for the tag. Much appreciated.
Your blog is a real breath of fresh air.
Hi TCL
You are making a big mistake not sharig this dish but perhaps S has been v canny and put you off it so he can enjoy the total pleasure. If you halve eggy bread you more than halve the enjoyment.
Hi Scott
Next weekend I might proffer a tray under D’s nose and stand back.
I bet he’ll love it.
Hi KJ
Thanks for te tip about maple syrup. Can’t wait to try it!
Hi Pat
The savoury version is scrummy. I couldn’t eat sausages with this – not enough room perhaps your French toast is smaller?
I was searching one recipe in english because I´m students englinsh em my contry (Brazil)and need make homework.
Thanks a lot!
Hi Jorgelennon
Thanks so much for dropping by and leaving a comment!
Good luck with your studies.
it took me ages to find a savoury version of eggy bread, so thanks for putting it up, im having it as my sunday breakfast!
I love eggy bread and have it everyday !!!
just about to try your eggy bread recipe with my wife…fun saturday night!
I went to a boarding school and seem to remember having this at least 3 mornings a week with baked beans…and usually going up for seconds.
Great recipe, great website
Currently am making eggy bread following this recipe! It is smelling good
Thanks for posting this recipe!xxx
Great but top with mushrooms either grilled whole or sliced.
This is also nice with fried tomatoes, fresh basil and mozzarella.
Love the recipe, a shame my attempt looked nothing like the photo in the article. Possibly I shouldn’t use cheap pre-sliced supermarket bread (it tried to tear in half as I picked it up, too soggy from the egg!) but it still tasted great. Thanks!
Oh man i love eggy bread
I do a variation on the eggy bread recipe which goes as follows:
Two slices of preferably white bread. Get a glass tumbler and turn it upside down on each slice to cut out a circle in the middle (you can roll up the discarded disc of bread and eat it as a dough ball while you do the next step)!
spread a little tomato puree on the two slices and shallow fry in a little oil with the tomato puree side up. Break an egg into each of the holes in the bread and wait ’til they cook through before flipping them over to cook the tomato puree side in the oil.
Voila! Maria’s eggy bread… sort of!!!!!!
Maria xx
Hi Fiona. In my student days I discovered cheesy dreams! Like eggy bread but with a twist. You make a plain cheese sandwich on white bread, quarter, dip in the egg and fry. It really is heaven on a plate….perhaps not on the hips tho!
Well i eat it with sugar instead of salt
MUCH better
I love eggy bread too. Tip for those with children who aren’t keen on their veg: I very finely grate carrot into the eggs before soaking the bread and children hardly notice it’s there. It goes sweet when the bread is fried and adds a bit of healthiness!
Here on the East Coast of the States, people tend to run to the grocer for eggs, bread and milk on the eve of a snowstorm.
My housemate and I decided that this was because everyone feels a compunction to make French Toast (eggy bread)when it snows.
We just got hammered with one blizzard (and we had delicious eggy bread and bacon) and are going to be hit with another one in two days (better get/make more bread, eh?).
It’s a nice tradition — get the ingredients and have French Toast/Eggy Bread for breakfast or dinner or whatever (It’s awful nice when you come in from shoveling your walkway and someone has made you a hot meal).
A.
PS — LOVE the site, only wish I had more backyard space to take good advantage of!
Hello A
I’ve been watching with interest the snowfall in the USA. Amazing.
I love eggy bread/French toast to. You’ve given me the nudge to make it for breakfast tomorrow. Thanks.
Great recipe, thanks! Eggy bread is one of my favourite comfort foods, and was pretty much the staple diet of me & my friends when we were about 15!