Name: Milk Toast
Ingredients: salt

Milk Toast

Ingredients

salt

Directions

1 We cut our slices the same thickness to toast.
2 We put the milk into the saucepan.
3 We toast the bread.
4 We butter the' toast, and keep it warm.
5 We put the milk over to heat.
6 We rub the butter and flour together.
7 We add the butter and flour, with the salt, to the milk, when the milk is heated near boiling.
8 We stir the milk until about as thick as cream.
9 We place the toast in a warm dish, dipping the hot cream over each slice.
Now it is finished.

By Emily Huntington (1841–1909). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.