What do they call french toast in france?
French toast is called pain perdu and can be found anywhere in France as it is an universal peasant recipe to use stale bread. It can be done with milk, butter, sugar, cream, eggs in any combination possible. We used to eat our stale bread like that when I was a child in the south of France. It is slander to even hint that I purposely hid some bread to make it stale so my mom would make some pain perdu.
“Pain Perdu” comes from Alsace and it means “lost bread”. It was a way to make use of stale bread and considered “peasant” food. My Alsatian mother-in-law was really surprised to see me making it because I had been told that French toast wasn’t really French (but it was!) She told me they used to put sugar on it. The maple syrup is a North American addition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_toas… About the Spanish Omelette, I wouldn’t say that the Spanish Tortilla is the same thing. I know it with bell peppers, tomato sauce and other things in a *thin* omelette (no potatoes). We would call the one from Spain, a “Spanish Tortilla”. Perhaps that’s a British/American thing…
