One of the first recipes my father taught me was how to make French Toast, something both my parents loved. It's one of the nicest treats you can whip up, and it is also one of the easiest, plus it has the benefit of being very child friendly.
French toast does have roots in France, where it is known as "pain perdu" or lost bread, a reference to its staleness. The idea was to simply revive the bread with a soak of eggs and milk, then fry it up. Oddly enough, the old French name was "Pain Romana", referring even further back, to Rome. Given the simplic
