Member Recipe Review: Pain Perdu (Lost Bread)

Written Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 by Penny Hawkins

There are lots of reasons to love this recipe, but one of my favorite things about it is the name....Pain Perdu or "Lost Bread". It conjures up visions of romantic, Casablanca/Indiana Jones-esque movies doesn't it? Seriously... just because of the name, this recipe "had me at hello"!

Besides the great name, I was attracted to this recipe from HHM member MakeRoux because I really love the whole idea of finding ways to reclaim "lost" or stale bread, especially in these hard economic times. Can I just throw a shout out to the cook who came up with the idea of soaking stale bread in eggs and milk and frying it up? Brilliant! Whoever it was must have lived in times like these when nothing should ever, ever get wasted, and they sure knew what they were doing!

This is another recipe I made with my grandson recently, although he was mainly interested in the process of soaking the bread in the egg/milk mixture as opposed to the actual cooking part (boys....they like the messy stuff don't they?). Anyway, when the cooking was done, we feasted like kings and Brandon saw that breakfast is so much more than toaster pastries and cereal. He was crazy about this wonderful recipe and even suggested that next time we stuff the bread with "that cheese I like" (translated to mean cream cheese). Could it be that I have a budding chef on my hands? Only time will tell! In the meantime, I plan to make Pain Perdu again and again, and I hope you do too!

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