French Toast

E & I have two different ways of making French toast. Sometimes we will just buy a bag of cinnamon swirl bread and use a plain egg batter to make it; it turns out pretty good. We also have a Better Homes and Garden Cookbook with a simple French toast recipe. We used that recipe today, since we had all of the ingredients at home.

Ingredients:

• 4 beaten eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 TBSP. sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 8 slices of bread (we just used wheat bread that we had leftover; it probably wasn't thick enough, but it was free!)
• 2 TBSP. butter

Directions:
1) In a shallow bowl, beat together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon & nutmeg.
2) Dip bread slices into egg mixture, coating both sides.
3) In a skillet or a griddle, melt 1 TBSP of butter over medium heat.
4) Add half of the bread slices and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
5) Repeat with remaining butter & bread slices.
6) Serve with syrup (and I like to add butter & powdered sugar too... yummy!)