Pain Perdu

• stale bread
• eggs
• milk
• vanilla sugar or sugar and rum

Make vanilla sugar by burying several vanilla pods in white sugar and leaving them in an airtight jar for a month.

If you can’t be bothered mix sugar with rum or Spanish brandy – George Best’s favourite drink among many favourite drinks: ‘Yus, shewer, Oi loike ta slup dowun to the pooel fur a Fondador.’

The stale bread should be this side of Penicillium. Cut it into slices 2cm t