Name: ★ Sister Betty Saxby’s Toast
Ingredients: a pint of milk take about 1 1/3 tablespn; 1 1/3 tablespn; 1 1/2 tablespn; salt

★ Sister Betty Saxby’s Toast

Ingredients

a pint of milk take about 1 1/3 tablespn
1 1/3 tablespn
1 1/2 tablespn
salt

Directions

Make the dressing

To a pint of milk, add about 1 ⅓ tablespoons graham flour (not white), or for skimmed milk, 1 ½ tablespoons flour, add salt, and cook in a double boiler for 15 minutes to ½ hour.

Assemble and serve

Moisten white or graham zwieback according to directions and put in layers in a tureen with the following dressing.
Cover and let stand in a warm place for 10-15 minutes before serving.

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Milk: Forms the liquid base of the dressing that soaks into the zwieback.
Graham flour (in the method): Thickens the milk into a dressing as it cooks in a double boiler.

“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.