I posted this on facebook this morning and thought I'd share it here, also - even tho the last time I mentioned this dish a few unrefined peasants gagged................ I've never seen anything in print about milk toast before.
"Saw this on Food52 – anyone else grow up on this dish when you weren’t feeling well?? My sister and I did and I still love it. Have never seen anything written about it before! But, I’m in good company with M.F.K. Fisher, that’s for sure!! Pouring scalded milk over 2 slices of toast in a shallow soup bowl and adding a couple knobs of butter and salt and pepper. The memories of this therapy makes my taste buds wake up!!
“Milk toast has been knotted up with connotations so profoundly bland (I blame this guy) that we're starting to forget what it actually is -- which is simply toast soaked in buttered milk. In An Alphabet For Gourmets, M. F. K. Fisher calls it "a warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength" in a recipe titled, appropriately, Milk Toast (for the Ill, Weak, Old, Very Young, or Weary).” "
"Saw this on Food52 – anyone else grow up on this dish when you weren’t feeling well?? My sister and I did and I still love it. Have never seen anything written about it before! But, I’m in good company with M.F.K. Fisher, that’s for sure!! Pouring scalded milk over 2 slices of toast in a shallow soup bowl and adding a couple knobs of butter and salt and pepper. The memories of this therapy makes my taste buds wake up!!
“Milk toast has been knotted up with connotations so profoundly bland (I blame this guy) that we're starting to forget what it actually is -- which is simply toast soaked in buttered milk. In An Alphabet For Gourmets, M. F. K. Fisher calls it "a warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength" in a recipe titled, appropriately, Milk Toast (for the Ill, Weak, Old, Very Young, or Weary).” "
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