Water Toast

Toast the bread. Dip quickly in boiling salted water (allowing one-half teaspoon salt to one cup water). Spread with butter. Serve on hot plate.

Toasted Crackers

1 Saltine=15 Calories. Toast oblong crackers daintily, and butter. Serve on plate with doily, piled log-cabin fashion.

Mile Toast, 388 Calories

Put a cup of rich milk in a saucepan and place it on the stove. While it is heating, toast three slices of bread to a delicate brown. Put them into a covered dish, and when the milk is scalding hot, season it with a saltspoon of salt, and pour it over the toast.

Note

A little butter may be spread on each slice before the milk is added, but it is a more delicate dish without it.

Cream Toast No. I, 261 Calories

(Individual Rule).

½ tablespoon butter. ½ tablespoon flour. ½ saltspoon salt.

½ cup milk. 1½ slices bread.

Scald the milk. Melt butter, add flour, remove from fire and add the milk gradually. Stir over heat constantly until smooth, cooking five minutes after blending, or until the starch is thoroughly cooked.

Toast: Remove crust if desired, cut in oblong pieces and toast. Serve on small platter with cream sauce poured over it, and garnish with toast points.

Note

If you wish the toast very soft, it may be dipped very quickly in boiling salted water before adding the cream sauce.

Cream Toast No. II, 261 Calories

½ tablespoon butter. ½ tablespoon flour. ½ saltspoon salt.

1 tablespoon cold water. ½ cup milk. 1½ slices toast.

Scald milk. Mix flour and salt and add the cold water gradually, making a smooth, thin paste. Add to scalded milk; cook in double boiler twenty minutes, stirring constantly until it thickens. Add butter. Pour over toast, and serve hot, of hot platter.

Celery Toast

4 ounces celery = 12 Calories. Clean celery and cut into one-inch pieces; cover with boiling water and cook until tender; drain off water.

Prepare Cream Sauce in Cream Toast No. I; add cooked celery and pour on small slices of buttered toast. Garnish with toast points.

French Toast (For The Diabetic), 144 Calories

1 ½ cup milk. Salt.

1 egg. Gluten bread.

Beat the egg, add milk and salt; dip into this mixture slices of Gum Gluten bread. Saute and brown in a little butter.

Clam Broth And Toast

Follow directions as for Milk or Cream Toast, adding sufficient Clam Broth (to taste) to the Sauce, and pour over toast. Serve hot.