Milk toast

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Milk toast is a breakfast food consisting of toasted bread and sugar dipped in or covered in hot milk into which a small amount of butter has been melted.^{[citation needed]} Cinnamon and raisins may be added. Milk toast was a popular food throughout the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially for young children and for the ailing, for whom the food was thought to be soothing and easy to digest.^{[citation needed]} Although not as popular today, milk toast is still considered a comfort food^[1][2][3]. The store-bought product, Rusk, resembles milk toast even though it's fully baked and dried, unlike homemade versions.

The celebrated food writer M. F. K. Fisher called milk toast a "warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength", and wrote, of eating milk toast in a famed restaurant with a convalescent friend, that the food was "a small modern miracle of gastronomy". She noted that milk toast was "an instinctive palliative, something like boiled water".^{[citation needed]}

Milk toast's soft blandness served as inspiration for the name of the timid and ineffectual comic strip character Caspar Milquetoast, drawn by Harold Webster from 1924 to 1952. The term "milquetoast" has since adopted a new meaning: a timid, shrinking, apologetic person.

[edit] Milk Toast in Asia

There is a dessert called milk toast which is served in many Asian milk tea cafes in Asia and the United States. It consists of thick, enriched toasted white bread with condensed milk on top.

[edit] See also

• Milquetoast/Milk toast (disambiguation)

[edit] External links

• Milk toast recipe at Worldwideschool
• Milk toast recipe at mrbreakfast.com
• Modern milktoast recipe at Butlerwebs

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