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French-Canadian Toast
Recipe details
Like normal French toast, only using brioche in place of the regular bread, and drenched in maple syrup, the food symbol of Canada.
Serves:
2
Cooking time:
5 minutes
Contributor:
Nigella Lawson
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 slices brioche
- 5 rashers streaky bacon
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- Good maple syrup
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Each serving contains
Calories:
623kcal, 32% of your GDA
Sugar:
29g, 33% of your GDA
Fat:
28g, 40% of your GDA
Saturates:
8g, 40% of your GDA
Salt:
3.3g, 55% of your GDA
of your guideline daily amount
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Method
- Beat the eggs with the sugar and ground cinnamon and pour into a dish that will fit the brioche slices without squeezing them. Add the bread and leave it to soak for 10 minutes then turn and give it another 10 minutes. If it's very fresh you'll probably find 5 minutes a side will do.
- Cook the bacon in the oil until it's really crisp then remove to some kitchen towel, and wrap it in foil while you cook the brioche in the bacon juices in the pan. You need the eggy bread to have been scorched a deep brown in places and be slightly puffed up; each slice will be soft and squidgy inside, but that's desirable.
- Remove the golden brioche to a plate and crumble the bacon in your fingers or break it up into shards and let them fall onto the plate. Pour over maple syrup in quantities that please you, leaving the bottle to hand so you can add as you eat.
Cook's tip
Although this recipe is usually made for breakfast, it is also perfect for an intimate snatched supper for two in the small hours.
Copyright
© Nigella Lawson 2004, Feast. Photographs of Nigella by James Merrell, 2004.