{"id":9070,"date":"2012-02-18T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T20:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2012-02-16T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T19:58:16","slug":"french-toast-was-originally-typically-made-using-stale-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/french-toast-was-originally-typically-made-using-stale-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"French Toast was Originally Typically Made Using Stale Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/french-toast-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9071\" title=\"french-toast-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/french-toast-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/french-toast-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/french-toast-facts-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>French toast is traditionally made out of stale bread.\u00a0 Bread has been a staple food for most cultures since food first began being prepared and, up until very recently, the vast majority of humans would have never dreamed of wasting any food; thus, one has to find a way to make stale bread palatable.\u00a0 Soaking it in milk and egg and then cooking it, seems logical enough, making a good tasty meal while not wasting any bread and the result is French Toast.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest reference to doing just this dates all the way back to 4th century Rome, in a cookbook attributed to Apicius, and it is thought to predate this work by a good margin. This style of &#8220;French&#8221; toast (obviously not really invented in France) was called Pan Dulcis.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bread Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/bread-goes-stale-about-six-times-faster-in-the-refrigerator-than-at-room-temperature\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French toast is traditionally made out of stale bread.\u00a0 Bread has been a staple food for most cultures since food first began being prepared and, up until very recently, the vast majority of humans would have never dreamed of wasting any food; thus, one has to find a way to make stale bread palatable.\u00a0 Soaking it in milk and egg [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[974,267,1732,1921],"class_list":["post-9070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bread-facts","tag-facts","tag-french-toast-facts","tag-french-toast-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}