well-toasted

Updated: May 16, 2025

Various preparations of eggs can be served on toast, first dipping slices of well-toasted bread quickly in hot salted water, then turning over them scrambled, poached or creamed eggs, all found in the recipes among EGGS. Toast six slices of stale bread, dip them in hot salted water and butter them lightly.

F. L. (Fanny Lemira) Gillette - The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) : Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. : The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home

TAINTED BUTTER. Some good cooks say that bad butter may be purified in the following manner: Melt and skim it, then put into it a piece of well-toasted bread; in a few minutes the butter will lose its offensive taste and smell; the bread will absorb it all. Slices of potato fried in rancid lard will in a great measure absorb the unpleasant taste. TOMATOES PIE. Tomatoes make excellent pies.

Lydia Maria Francis Child - The American Frugal Housewife

"Now we are going to have billy tea as they make it in the bush in Australia," said Dermot, opening the canister and dropping tea from it into the boiling water. Noreen gathered up a pile of well-toasted chupatis and turned a smiling, dimpled face to him. "This is the jolliest picnic I've ever had," she cried.

Gordon Casserly - The Elephant God

Add one teaspoon of salt for each quart of water. Place where the water will boil. Cook until tender, having the cover partially off the stew-pan. This will be from fifteen to thirty minutes, depending upon the freshness and tenderness of the vegetable. Have some slices of well-toasted bread on a platter. Butter them slightly.

Florence Kreisler Greenbaum - The International Jewish Cook Book : 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; : the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc.