Poor Knights

Name: Poor Knights
Ingredients: 150 ml (¼ pint) milk; slices of stale bread about 1 cm (½ inch) thick; 2 egg yolks, beaten; oil and/or butter for shallow frying; oil and/or butter for shallow frying; about ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; brown sugar, to sprinkle

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Paupers Cookbook

By Jocasta Innes

Published 2014

About

This is a recipe for using up stale bread.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons brown sugar
150 ml (¼ pint) milk

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Stir the sugar into the milk. Cut the bread into soldiers and put them in the milk and sugar for a few moments on each side, turning them over carefully. (Do not over-handle them or they will become soggy.) Dip each one into the beaten egg and then fry in hot oil or butter until golden and crispy.

Serve sprinkled with the cinnamon and more brown sugar.