Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 08:14     Subject: Re:The joys of buttered toast
My DH is the cook at home. He used to make "bread assortments" for my DD for late night snacks. "Daddy, can you make me a toast assortment please?" DD would shout at around 2 am, and DH being an absolutely sweet natured besotted dad would get up, go down to the kitchen, toast 2 breads and then cut them into 4 pieces and put butter, cheese spread, jams, spices etc, and present it to our little princess. The tradition has continued...DD is now in her 20s. When she comes home, DH will make toasted bread assortment for her (and himself) at some god awful time.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 08:08     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Anonymous wrote:You buttered sourdough toast people: Are you not having it with a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice?

I'm bringing some to the weekend toast meet-up, then. I plan to arrive early enough to smell the grinding of coffee beans, but I'll pop the juice in the fridge so we have have icy cold, sweet juice with our hot, buttery salty sour toast


Every once in a while, I buy fresh squeezed orange juice from the Amish market. (It is super-duper expensive). Drink it with a dash of black salt (Kala Namak) and it will remind you of the fruit juice stands of S Asia.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 08:04     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Butter toast and tea. My mom and I would subsist on it when packing our entire home every three years. My dad used to get posted every three years (Military) in another country. Mom and I could tackle all the packing if we closed the kitchen and subsisted on simple meals. The toast was juicy with the butter and then we had cardamom flavored tea with generous amounts of sugar.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 08:01     Subject: Re:The joys of buttered toast
Ah!!! Pure joy!
Currently, I use kerrygold, but in the past, I have even made butter from fresh cream at home. You know when you boil raw milk and that thin layer of cream forms on the top? Keep on skimming it and storing it in fridge, until you have enough to churn it into butter... yum. (Of course, then you could melt that butter and make it into ghee!!).

Then there was this stinky butter of my childhood wrapped in leaves? Anyone from the tea gardens ??

https://www.facebook.com/cafekalimpong/posts/we-have-1kg-fresh-and-pure-butter-neatly-wrapped-with-nebhara-leaf-ficus-roxburg/2069888599821150/

If a toaster was not available, oftentimes my mom toasted the bread on open flame using a tong, or pan-toasted it. I prefer that slightly roasted taste with utterly soft insides of a fire roasted toast. Even when I am eating BBQ, I want the buns toasted on the grill. That is one main reason that I will never ever get rid of my gas stove.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 07:47     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Add me to the club of toast and butter lovers. I’m a carb addict thru and thru.
Homemade bread, thickly sliced, is the ideal.
About 75% of the time I like it with just butter. The rest I add a touch of sweetness — honey or homemade jam.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 07:40     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Pepperidge Farm Cinnamon Raisin Bread toasted with butter!

I hate raisins in everything else but in this bread, they are perfection.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 03:01     Subject: Re:The joys of buttered toast
Growing up, on dreary, rainy days, my davorite snack was hot chocolate and buttered toast.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2023 01:53     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love toast with butter! When I was a kid I loved staying in hotels because they used to serve perfectly toasted buttered white bread.

Of course I also adore white rice with ghee.

Simple carbs are my simple pleasure.


For me it was diners growing up. Not the fancy silver diners around DC with all organic food, I mean Jersey diners with terrible coffee and waitresses named Flo. I don't know how they did it, but bread should not be able to hold as much melted butter as that diner toast did. It was amazing, and I didn't appreciate it until this thread

Girl, I know exactly what you mean! This post brought back road trip memories from my childhood. That buttered toast was well and truly buttery, and the eggs were good too.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 23:17     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Anonymous wrote:Toasted Sourdough + grassfed butter + pinch of salt - sooooo good.


My fave breakfast! I let it a cool a bit so the butter doesn’t melt. It just spread though
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 22:41     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
I have nothing new of value to add here, other than to say that I love you all and will be thinking of DCUM while I go make myself a late night snack of buttered toast. DH will think I'm nuts, but heck with him.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 22:33     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
One of my lifetime top meals was the buttered toast and tea my midwife brought me after DC1 was born (London). She handed baby to DH and brought me a tray. I hadn’t had anything for hours, was exhausted yet slightly giddy from gas and air…that toast was divine!
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 22:16     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Anonymous wrote:I love toast with butter! When I was a kid I loved staying in hotels because they used to serve perfectly toasted buttered white bread.

Of course I also adore white rice with ghee.

Simple carbs are my simple pleasure.


For me it was diners growing up. Not the fancy silver diners around DC with all organic food, I mean Jersey diners with terrible coffee and waitresses named Flo. I don't know how they did it, but bread should not be able to hold as much melted butter as that diner toast did. It was amazing, and I didn't appreciate it until this thread
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 19:29     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I've come to really, really savor old fashioned buttered toast (sweet white bread with butter made from cow's milk). I've been having only that for breakfast every morning this week. It's actually such a luxury - remember how George Washington's weird mother wrote him a letter when he was on the battlefield in Pennsylvania, not giving a f**k about his safety but requesting that he send her butter? And white bread was once a luxury too. And getting a slice of bread evenly sliced, and then toasted to the exact burn that you want, is also a modern miracle.

So according to my distant ancestors, having buttered toast for breakfast is basically a sign that their lineage won at life or something.

Sorry but I actually feel very passionate about my morning toast. I like that it's chilly outside but my slices of bread are being warmed up. I like how the butter starts to melt on warm toast. I love the texture and flavor combination when you eat it. I enjoy it so much that I don't even want coffee with it anymore. It's SO GOOD.

I literally made SIX SLICES OF TOAST this morning just for myself, and I don't know what's gotten into me?

Does anyone else get like this sometimes?



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Have all the toast lovers on this thread read the Mercy Watson (children’s) books by Kate DiCamillo?
They are amazing books- and Mercy is the spirit animal of all toast lovers (I include myself).
https://www.mercywatson.com/


Those books always make me want toast!
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 18:48     Subject: Re:The joys of buttered toast
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: Butter both sides..


How did this never cross my mind? This is one of the most genius - obvious but I didn't think of it things I've seen in a long time.

My whole life, how many thousands of toast sides did I waste?

(slinks away feeling grateful this forum is anonymous)



My husband's grilled cheese sandwiches are so good for this reason--he butters both sides of the bread!


I am a proud member of Team Buttered Toast, but I’m here to say that if you spread mayo on the pan side of your grilled cheese bread and cook as usual, it will rock your world.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 18:41     Subject: The joys of buttered toast
I can only do fancy butter. It drives me crazy when people offer me sticks of butter. In my mind those are for cooking with