Torrijas, with what bread do you prefer them?

The torrijas, like the pestinos, are a traditional sweet typical of the Easter season. Already in Lent, the kitchens of the grandmothers and the pastry shops begin to smell of lemon and cinnamon, fried bread and honey. That is that the French toast has already begun to be prepared.

As you already know, torrijas are a sweet made from fried bread dipped in milk or wine, then dipped in honey, sugar and cinnamon. They are tender and delicious, and if you get too cloying you can choose to reduce the amounts of honey and sugar.

The traditional French toast they are made with bread from the day before, the one that is already getting hard. However, on these dates they go on the market special sliced ​​breads for torrijas. If you can't find it, the special sandwich bread or the rustic type go very well too.

By the way, like the pestiños, torrijas have also been used to make other desserts.

French Toast (Torrijas)

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Who has not tried French toast at some time? Enjoy this traditional sweet preparing them yourself at home

• Ángela

• Kitchen: cuisine
• Recipe type: dessert
• Rations: 12

• Total time:

Ingredients

• 1 loaf of bread from the day before
• 1 liter of milk
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 lemon rind
• 10 tablespoons sugar
• 2 eggs
• olive oil
• cinnamon powder
• miel

Preparation

1. Boil the milk with the cinnamon and the lemon rind for about 5 minutes, add the sugar and dissolve well

2. Cut the loaf of bread into slices of about 3 or 4 cm

3. thick and place them in a slightly deep dish

4. They are covered with milk until they are well soaked so that they do not remain dry

5. Coat them with egg and fry them round and round in very hot oil in a frying pan until golden brown.

6. We place them on absorbent paper in a fountain

7. We remove the paper and while still hot we sprinkle them with sugar and cinnamon and cover them with honey clarified with a little water.

Image: Peter Mayoral