Monday, March 4, 2013

Lundi: Recipes

Today, another curious recipe from The White House Cookbook, which I mentioned earlier this year. This one is for a dessert called Lemon Toast. I haven't tried it yet but it sounds delightful and lemons - perhaps because of my location - always remind me of spring.

This dessert can be made very conveniently without much preparation.

Take the yolks of six eggs, beat them well and add three cupfuls of sweet milk; take baker's bread, not too stale, and cut into slices; dip them into the milk and eggs and lay the slices into a spider, with sufficient melted butter, hot, to fry a delicate brown. Take the whites of the six eggs and beat them to a froth, adding a large cupful of white sugar; add the juice of two lemons, heating well and adding two cupfuls of boiling water. Serve over the toast as a sauce an you will find it a very delicious dish.

It does sound delicious and, I imagine, the home cook could simply fry the bread in a pan rather than utilizing a "spider" with which I am unfamiliar. Bon appetite ~

Header: Bodegon by Benjamin Palencia c 1924 via Old Paint

4 comments:

Undine said...

A "spider" is/was a frying pan with long, thin legs that were used to hold it over a hearth. Even though the legs have disappeared, that's still a term used in some parts of the country.

Pauline said...

Awesome; thanks for adding to this post, Undine. I've got a cold so I will admit to being just listless enough to forgo looking that up. As always, I can count on you :)

Timmy! said...

It sounds kind of like French toast with a lemon meringue topping, Pauline...

Pauline said...

It does; very old-timey too.