Brown Fries24

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cooking and Dining in Medieval England

By Peter Brears

Published 2008

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Method

As brawn fries, but using thin-sliced wholemeal bread instead of the brawn.

In one of the most popular of medieval fried foods, the batter was replaced by beaten egg yolks. Pain perdu, ‘lost bread’ or, as it is better known today, ‘eggy bread’, was simply a slice o