Baked French Toast
1 Loaf sourdough, french bread, waldorf baguette - basically
whichever one is 50% off because it's a day old :)
8 large eggs
2 1/2 cups milk (or 2 c. milk plus 1/2 c whipping cream - I'd like to live to see 75 so I don't, but the choice is yours)
3 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp vanilla extract
*Tear or cut up the bread, chuck it in a greased 9 by
13. Mix other ingredients, pour over top
and set in fridge (covered) overnight or on your counter for twenty minutes because
you forgot to make it the night before.
If you do forget - just give the gooey bread crumbs a stir to make sure
they are all coated after 20 minutes.
TOPPING: you can also
make this the night before - but do not
put it on the french toast until just before you bake it.
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup rolled oats (I'm sure quick oats would work fine if
that's what you have!)
1/4 cup chopped pecans (*optional )
1/2- *3/4 cup cold butter (if I add the pecans I increase
the butter, otherwise I usually stick with 1/2 cup butter)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
If your butter is frozen - just use a cheese grater to grate
it right into your dry ingredient mixture - brilliant, right? Thank you Mennonite Girls for the tip. If it's just cold, you can cut it into the
flour using a pastry cutter or whatever floats your boat when it comes to
getting cold butter into flour. Then mix
in with the other dry ingredient. It's
basically like a fruit crumble topping now.
BAKING INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 deg. F . Remove bread mix from fridge (or give it a
stir on the counter if you don't plan ahead like me) and cover it with the
glorious crumble. Bake for 45 minutes- 1
hour, making sure the centre is set.
Serve with fruit and syrup and whipping cream and any and
all fantastical things you can think to throw on top.
*If you are tempted to double this recipe for a crowd - make two separate pans - I've found it impossible to, say, put it into a deep french white casserole dish and have the centre bake without the edges burning with double volume, my husband tells me it's science...pfft, whatever man.*
