Milk Toast

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 slices toast

Method

1. 1

   Make ready the toast.

2. 2

   Heat the milk until smoking hot.

3. 3

   Melt the butter in a small saucepan.

4. 4

   Throw the flour into the butter.

5. 5

   Cook until it bubbles a little, stirring all the time.

6. 6

   Take from the fire.

7. 7

   Pour the milk upon the butter and flour, a little at a time, stirring with the back of a spoon to press out the lumps.

8. 8

   Place over fire, and gradually stir in the remaining milk.

9. 9

   Add the salt.

10. 10

    Let boil a minute.

11. 11

    Put slices of toast in a heated dish; pour the sauce over and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Mary Frances cook book (1912) by Jane Eayre Fryer, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Milk Toast for your mother? it would be softer, and more palat — palat — " "Pal-a-table," said Mary Frances. "Yes," said he, "you know a good deal for a little **''«-" li Wiiat a beautiful piece of ^oastr l^uttered toast. 20 The Mary Frances Cook Book girl," — and he began to choke. Mary Frances patted him hard. "A piece of toast?" she asked. "No," he exclaimed in-dig-nant-ly, "a long word always makes me choke. That's why I seldom use them. Now, please read about Milk Toast." ''If you know " sug-gest-ed Mary Frances. "Well, it's more like real grown-up people to have it out of a book," said the little man. " Go on!" And Mary Frances read from her little Cook Book. No. 3.— Milk Toast. 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon flour | teaspoon salt 3 slices toast

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