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French Toast (Sweet Batter)

You'll need: Shallow bowl, Griddle or skillet. Adapted for home kitchens by Halite from the U.S. War Department's Army Recipes (TM 10-412, 1946): scaled down from 100 servings, 1946 ingredients swapped for ones sold today, and the method rewritten. The recipe as printed is the Original version in this recipe's history.

6 servingsBy U.S. War Department on Army Recipes, TM 10-412 (1946)

Ingredients

  • 710ml (3 cups) Milk
  • 200g (4) Eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1.7g (¼ tsp) Salt
  • 20g (1 ½ tbsp) Sugar
  • 540g (18 slice) Bread, dry, sliced

Instructions

  1. 1

    Beat the milk, eggs, salt, and sugar together well.

  2. 2

    Dip the bread slices in the milk and egg mixture.

  3. 3

    Fry on a greased griddle until browned on one side, then turn and fry on the other side.

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French Toast

100 servingsBy U.S. War Department on Army Recipes, TM 10-412 (1946)

Ingredients

  • 13 — 14½-ounce cans Milk, evaporated
  • 6 quarts (6 No. 56 dippers) Water (for milk)
  • 60 eggs (3 No. 56 dippers) Eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1 ounce (2 mess kit spoons) Salt
  • ¾ pound (½ mess kit cup) Sugar, granulated
  • 300 slices Bread, dry, sliced

Instructions

  1. 1

    Mix milk and water; add beaten egg, salt, and sugar. Mix well.

  2. 2

    [Dip slices of bread in milk and egg mixture.

  3. 3

    Fry on greased griddle until brown on one side. Turn and fry on other side.

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What we changed

  • Cut from the book’s 100 servings to 6 servings.
  • Swapped “Milk, evaporated” for “Milk, whole”.
  • Scaled 5 amounts and rounded each to a kitchen measure, like ½ cup.
  • Fixed 2 fractions the scan of the 1946 page misread.
  • Tidied 2 ingredient names.
  • AI rewrote the method for a home kitchen. Tap As printed at the top to compare.

Taken from the log we keep of every edit to this recipe. We left out the line-by-line unit conversions.

Where this recipe comes from

It’s from Army Recipes (TM 10-412), the cookbook the U.S. War Department printed in 1946 for Army mess halls. As a U.S. government work, it’s in the public domain.

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