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French Toast seasonings

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French Toast seasonings

do you know of a commercial seasoning for french toast or have a mix of spices for that perfect flavour? not looking for anything fancy just maybe a little something something beside salt or pepper. e.g. cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, allspice, vanilla extract, ...i know i know I'm living dangerously.
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You can add maple sugar, instead of regular sugar. I have also used a bit of condensed milk as well. Other than that, you pretty well have used the most common and typical ingredients for french toast making.
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You don't need to add salt and pepper to your French toast. That detracts from the flavour.
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Raggie wrote: You don't need to add salt and pepper to your French toast. That detracts from the flavour.
Yes, yuck - I've never seen salt and pepper on French toast.
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Chickinvic wrote: Yes, yuck - I've never seen salt and pepper on French toast.

Yeah, french toast is a sweet food. Think of pancakes.
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Raggie wrote: Yeah, french toast is a sweet food. Think of pancakes.
That is how I have always served it. With syrup or fruit toppings and whipped cream, etc.
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The first time my wife made French toast for me, she garnished it with olive oil, parsley, onions and garlic. She said that's how they do it where she's from. I was pretty horrified, expecting butter and maple syrup. But it was really good!
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Kiraly wrote: The first time my wife made French toast for me, she garnished it with olive oil, parsley, onions and garlic. She said that's how they do it where she's from. I was pretty horrified, expecting butter and maple syrup. But it was really good!
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With the holiday season, add eggnog
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I have never seen or looked for commercial French toast topping, but make it all the time. Both sweet and savory (which my kids actually prefer).

Regular French toast toppings (use one, all, or any combination
- fruit
- whipped cream
- yogurt
- peanut butter
- jam/fruit compote
- cinnamon/maple sugar
- maple sugar
- nutella

We actually make French toast sandwiches/ stuffed French toast, which are REALLY good.
- Monte Cristos - ham, cheese, turkey, then dread the bread and fry
- Make the French toast, put Cream cheese, Jam/compote, then redip the whole sandwich and fry again
- Maple bacon sandwiches, with a slice of swisse, it's really good
- Turkey dinner, turkey, cranberry dressing cooked like the monte cristo
- Roast beef, rosemary, with blueberry compote same as the Monte cristo
- Peanut butter and bananas and Nutella stuffed like the cream cheese one

I really love stuff French toast sandwiches.

One other tip I learned for all my French toast is to put a little baking powder with a pinch of salt in the egg to get an extra fluffy mixture.
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Kiraly wrote: The first time my wife made French toast for me, she garnished it with olive oil, parsley, onions and garlic. She said that's how they do it where she's from. I was pretty horrified, expecting butter and maple syrup. But it was really good!
People are socially conditioned to think of "french toast" as a sweet food. In reality its slices of bread soaked in eggs before frying.

Bread and egg on it's own can be a savory food. You can even have sunny side up egg placed on top of toast and that's a very valid savory food. But suddenly if you whip the eggs and soak the bread in to coat it before frying it, that end product has to be a sweet food despite the same ingredients as the savory egg on toast used in a different form.

I can see where french toast might taste good in savory form. If you've never had a problem with eggs on toast, then savory french toast will probably not be off putting. What savory ingredients are good with eggs and bread? I guess anything breakfast style that you might mix in an omlette. So mushrooms, tomatoes, ham, bacon, etc. Just need to get over the social conditioning as to how you were programmed that keeps telling you "this is wrong".
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nutmeg, touch of lemon extract, touch of vanilla = cake donut flavour
almond extract, rosewater = marzipan flavour

You add that to the batter though, top with Liberté Méditerranée yogurt

My buddy is a salt, pepper, ketchup kinda guy.
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ai_c wrote: With the holiday season, add eggnog
or 'nog spice which is nutmeg
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French toast in my household is served with salt and ketchup. In the UK it's a savory dish, just bread dipped in egg and fried. Wasn't until I moved to Canada that I came across the concept of it being a sweet dish.
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I add vanilla and cinnamon to the egg and serve with maple syrup, every time.
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you can have them sweet, have them savoury...how about one step further and have them sweet and savoury at the same time, much like fried chicken and waffles?
Fried Chicken with French Toast and Apples
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ShoNuff2 wrote: you can have them sweet, have them savoury...how about one step further and have them sweet and savoury at the same time, much like fried chicken and waffles?
Fried Chicken with French Toast and Apples
We LOVE sweet and savoury at the same time. I have had chicken and waffles many times, I don’t know why I didn't think of French toast. I also love that your recipe uses brioche
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Raggie wrote: You don't need to add salt and pepper to your French toast. That detracts from the flavour.
Even if you want a traditional sweet french toast, try a little salt. It adds to the flavour, not detracts from it. A little salt in sweet foods accentuates what is there without making it salty. This is true of most cooking.

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