> > I once wrote an essay on Toast, and it may be the most popular thing I > ever published on my blog. Read the comments: > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/02/10/On-Toast > Very American. You're pretty much all wrong about toast. Here's the way it's done in the civilised world.
When the toast is ready you put it in a rack so that it doesn't go soggy and will be crisp when taken to the breakfast table and buttered. Soldiers are for dipping into a soft boiled egg. I dislike marmalade, but the best is Frank Coopers and taking a jar when you visit your French friends will ensure that they remain so. I was told this at 14 by my French teacher just before I went to stay for 2 weeks near Rheims with my pen-friend's family. It was true then and is true now. Marmalade confuses the French, who call it confiture, which is the same word that they use for jam, which is clearly very different from marmalade. English confiture also amuses them endlessly because we put the word 'preservative' on the label. This means something entirely different in French. If you're eating your toast later in the day, perhaps after a wet, muddy and cold walk in the countryside, then you must have it hot buttered, which is to say you may butter it straight away, as you've described. But that is not toast, it is hot buttered toast. B > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>> i despise most toasters; there are only a few worth having, the > >> rest > >> >>> designed > >> >>>> to fail after a few years; ... > >> >> > >> >> Hmm. I have a simple KitchenAid toaster with wide slots to allow > >> >> bagels to be toasted that I bought in 1985 for $20. Still working > >> just > >> >> fine. It's a cheap piece of tin crap but it just keeps on > toasting. > >> >> > >> > > >> > My butler and housekeeper take care of my toastage needs. I'm > >> informed there > >> > is a 'kitchen' somewhere in the east wing. > >> > >> Always cold when it gets to the table. Don't stay at Bob's. > >> > > > > you should have said. Next time I'll get Mercedes or Juanita to warm > it up > > for you in their special way. > > > > B > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
