Fried Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Take dry bread.
Dip it into hot water quickly.
Lay it on a hot pancake griddle that has some lard or butter melted.
Salt it.
When nicely browned on one side, turn it on the other side and brown.
Add more butter when needed.
Some prefer the bread dipped in egg first.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.
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The step that matters
Dip the bread quickly in hot water. A brief dip softens the bread just enough to take on browning without becoming soggy. Leaving it in water too long makes the crumb wet, so it will not brown well on the griddle.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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