Tuesday 25 August 2020

What do British people call bread that is dipped in an egg/milk mixture and fried?

When I was in the scouts we used to call this eggy bread. We used to take turns in our tent group to cook breakfast for the rest of the troop; and there’d be a group of six of us supervised by one adult. Cereals would be put out as a starting point, but after a night spent sleeping under canvas we’d really want something hot while we waited for the day to warm up. The sausages and bacon could be undercooked and burnt to a crisp, the baked beans would stick to the saucepan and bits of shelled egg were everywhere. But eggy bread was the one thing that was guaranteed for the kitchen team not to get wrong. It was very hard to burn as it was saturated in the mixture and it was easy to scrape off the eggshell bits. It became the chef’s last resort when he’d had a nightmare of a kitchen team to co-ordinate; but at least you knew you had a chance of a decent hot breakfast item without running the risk of food poisoning! And we’d never give into the frogs…

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