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Happy National French Toast Day!

Dubbed "poor knights of Windsor" by the Brits, French toast originated in Europe during the Medieval times. As a way of making use of "pain perdu" (or "lost bread," as it's called in France), cooks discovered they could add moisture to hardened bread by dipping it in a sweetened egg-milk mixture. Despite the practicality of using up old bread, this practice was most likely confined to the wealthy, who would cut off the bread's crusts, an unthinkable, wasteful move to those less fortunate.

Today, French toast still refers to the breakfast dish involving bread dipped in an egg-milk mix, then fried, then topped with a combination of powdered sugar, jam, syrup or other various toppings.

What do you like to top your French toast with? Let us know, after the jump!

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Not really sure why this is called Wife Saver French Toast (I'd love to hear the story of how they came up with the name for it - I imagine a wife mad at her husband and he has to make his own breakfast that morning), but it sounds quite good.

Note: it's not a recipe for French Toast where you just dip the bread in liquid and throw it in a pan. You have to soak this overnight and then bake it in the oven for 50 minutes. So maybe the wife got mad at the hubby the night before and had to really plan this out for the next day's breakfast. (It also says to use "French bread," which I assume means the kind in the pic above and not square slices of thick toast?)