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Sides Toast, Four Different Ways

dry toasts
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(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

slices of fine light bread​
firm butter​
serve with coffee, tea, or chocolate​

Instructions:

Cut some smooth slices from a fine loaf of light bread, trim off the hard crusts, brown them delicately on a toaster, and send them warm to table with a plate of firm butter, to accompany coffee, tea, or chocolate.​


buttered toasts
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

slices of fine light bread​
melted butter​
serve with tea and coffee, or poultry, or game​

Instructions:

Slice and brown your toasts as before described; arrange them in a deep plate and pour over them a good quantity of melted butter. They are nice with tea and coffee, and are also often served with poultry and game.​


cream toasts
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

slices of fine light bread​
sweet cream​

Instructions:

Slice and brown your toasts neatly, place them on a plate, and pour over them a good quantity of sweet cream made scalding hot. Send them immediately to the table.​


water toasts
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

slices of fine light bread​
a few spoonfuls of water, boiling hot​
sugar​
vinegar, or lemon juice​

Instructions:

Having sliced and browned your toasts lay them in a plate. Make a few spoonfuls of water boiling hot, add a very little sugar, and slightly acidulate it with vinegar, or lemon juice, pour it scalding over the toasts, and send them immediately to table. They are very fine for people of delicate appetite.​


Here are several recipes for Toasts. They are from "The Kentucky Housewife" by Lettice Bryan, 1839.
 
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Neat post! So toast was in vogue in 1839. And they made it without the free toaster the bank used to give out for a new account. Like toast with creamed beef or creamed sausage (or hamburger) over it at breakfast. Mom made us "Cracker Soup" for an ailing tummy when we were young. It's made with broken crackers, a little hot water to soften them, then a little pat of butter and milk and sugar on top. We liked it, and if it did not make us feel better, at least we thought it did.
 
Ham Toast, ,1860 1863, from "Civil War Recipes, Receipts from the pages of Godey's Lady's Book".

Ham Toast

"Melt a small piece of butter in s stewpan until it is slightly browned; beat up one egg and add it to it; put in as much finely minced ham as would cover a round of buttered toast, adding as much gravy as will make it moist when quite hot. When all the ingredients are in, stir them quickly with a fork; pour onto the buttered toast, which cut in pieces afterwards any shape you please. Serve hot."
 
I am old enough to recall that as a small child making toast required one to put two pieces of bread in a hand held toaster with a long handle that closed over the bread and had a kind if wired ribbed backing screen. One had to hold this contraption over the gas range (lit with a match) for a couple minutes. Toast was a big deal in my house, a labor intensive food with seven people wanting it. One of my first chores was making it for the rest of the family.
 
Toast is always great...especially when feeling ill. In fact, after surgery the patients were started with clear liquids, then full liquids then to a "BRAT" diet before allowed full diet so as not to vomit from residual anesthesia. Easy to digest!!!
B-bananas
R-rice
A-applesauce
T-toast and/or tea
 
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