<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Cookbook: French toast Media: French toast </Td> </Tr> <P> French toast is a dish made of bread soaked in eggs and milk, then fried . Alternative names and variants include eggy bread, Bombay toast, German toast, gypsy toast, poor knights (of Windsor), and Torrija . </P> <P> The earliest known reference to French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating to the 4th or 5th century, where it is described as simply aliter dulcia ("another sweet dish"). The recipe depicts soaking in milk, but not egg . </P> <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>

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