Custard Bread

Ingredients

• Sweet milk 
• Spoonful of powdered cinnamon 
• 4 eggs 
• Brown sugar 
• Stale bread 
• Butter 
• Powdered sugar 

Directions

1. Set out 3 pie plates. 
2. Put some sweet milk and a spoonful of powdered cinnamon in the 1st pie plate. 
3. Beat 4 eggs and pout into the 2nd pie plate. 
4. Pour some brown sugar into the 3rd pie plate. 
5. Cut the stale bread into slices. 
6. Dip the slices of stale bread first into the milk and cinnamon, then into the eggs, and then roll them in the brown sugar. 
7. Fry the slices in butter until brown. (Only cook 3 slices at a time) 
8. Put those that have cooked onto a hot plate. Keeping them hot. 
9. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the bread slices. 
10. Serve with a wine sauce. 

— "Uncle John," S.C.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.

Prepared by Kirsten Smith

Louisiana Anthology

July 12, 2017