Bread

Butter

2 cupfuls milk

Salt and pepper

Toaster or toasting fork Saucepan Measuring cup Knife

First make your toast; this is best done over a hot fire, with a toaster, but you can make quite good toast in the oven.

Cut enough thin slices of bread for your guests, allowing about two a piece. Stale bread is better than fresh.

Lay these slices on a toaster, if you have one, or hold them one at a time on a long fork.

Take off one of the stove covers and toast your bread over a hot fire until one side is brown, and then toast it on the other side.

Be sure not to burn it.

If you use the oven, lay the bread in a pan.

If the fire is not hot the toast will be tough and hard. This is generally the trouble when toast is made in the oven, or when it is made before you want to use it.

Butter your toast evenly, and lay it in a hot dish.

Sprinkle a pinch of salt and one of pepper over each piece.

Heat 2 cupfuls of milk in a saucepan, until it steams.

Pour the hot milk over the toast and serve at once in the same dish.

If you use more than 8 pieces of toast you will need more milk.

Cream toast can be made by using the sauce described on page 7 instead of the hot milk. In this case don't put the salt and pepper on the toast.