<P> Under the names suppe dorate, soupys yn dorye, tostées dorées, and payn purdyeu, the dish was widely known in medieval Europe and often served with game birds and meats . A fourteenth - century German recipe uses the name Arme Ritter ("poor knights"), a name also used in English and the Nordic languages . Also in the fourteenth century, Taillevent presented a recipe for "tostées dorées". Italian 15th - century culinary expert Martino da Como offers a recipe . The word "soup" in the dish's name refers to bread soaked in a liquid, a sop . </P> <P> The first modern French Toast is from Montreal, Canada . Where they make tons of syrup to go with it . </P> <P> The usual French name is pain perdu (French: (pɛ̃ pɛʁdy) (listen), "lost bread", reflecting its use of stale or otherwise "lost" bread - which gave birth to the metaphoric term pain perdu for sunk costs . It may also be called pain doré, "golden bread". There are fifteenth - century English recipes for pain perdu . </P> <P> An Austrian and Bavarian term is pafese or pofese, from zuppa pavese, referring to Pavia, Italy . In Hungary, it is commonly called bundáskenyér (lit . "furry bread"). </P>

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