oh the delicious French toast, that sin fallen from heaven and collected with their warm hands by our grandmothers to feed us and fatten us up at Easter. One of the most delicious recipes that your mouth can taste without falling apart. Could there be something more of us on the face of the Earth?
Well, assuming that in reality the French toast they are not even an invention of ours, because surely there must be something. In fact, they are so international that we have even seen them appear in a dozen video games. We have searched for them all and we bring you the best pancakes in video game history (with recipe included).
First things first: the origin of the torrija
French toasttorrejas, poor gentlemen, pain lost, avgofeta, poor knights, French Toast… There are as many names for French toast as there are ways to make them, but essentially all the variants of this delicious dessert, of Roman origin and prior to the 4th century, focus on the same thing:
- A slice soaked in milk, coated in egg and fried in a pan with oil.
From then on, each country has its own touch, of course, but the essence is so similar that unfortunately our torrija has little or nothing special compared to the variants from the rest of the world. In fact, not even the tradition of eating them in Holy Week It is something etched in stone.
The custom, in fact, is little more than 200 years old, but for a recipe that has been fluttering around our palates for more than 1,700 years, each country has found a place for it in its imagination.
Some take it at Christmas, others at Carnival, and the rest have it as a dessert so common that, in addition to serving it as any breakfast, they also make room for it in their works like any other common dish.
From the traditional French toast recipe to French toast
Embracing the recipe as a common breakfast, dessert or snack in the Anglo-Saxon world, the Spanish torrija often appears in the video game world as French Toastwhich translated would be a french toast.
What would lead the Anglo-Saxon people to adopt that name despite the hatred that they seem to process towards our neighbors to the north? Well, actually it seems that the word was not originally that.
Like what about pain lost could compromise the molecular stability of their tongue and end in a sprained mouth, the colonists referred to the dish as french’s toastFrench toast, and at some point ended up losing that apostrophe to simply call itself French Toast.
french toast or french toast, the result is almost the same, although the latter use more butter than olive oil and, as you may have imagined by having carved out a niche for yourself among the Anglo-Saxon guarrindongadas, they usually have a much more powerful dressing.
The best torrijas in the video game world
And hand in hand with that more international side of our tasty French toast we come to its presence in the video game world. We have collected the five most iconic French toast recipes that we have found. Some of them have even crossed barriers to become their own dessert in a virtual place. Here you have them.
Cooking Mama
We start with a classic that also comes with video recipe included. Cut the bread, mix eggs, sugar and milk, soak the slices of bread well in the concoction and fry the slices in a pan bathed in butter.
Impossible more basic, but watch out for the look they have. To serve them they ask you for syrup, ice cream, strawberries, blueberries and a sprig of mint. For that of turning the torrijas into an even more forceful dish than it already is.
Minecraft
French toast in Minecraft. If that doesn’t blow your mind anymore, I don’t know what else I can tell you. Thanks must be given to the world of mods, which among the many meals that the game itself already included as standard has added several mixes such as the following.
In Foodcraft, for example, the version of the french toast It is the simplest thing you can throw at your face, the result of mixing toast with a boiled egg. It is clear that the one who created the mod has not made breakfast at home in his life.
in the mod Life in the WoodsInstead, the recipe includes bread, egg, sugar, ground cinnamon and requires a pan to make the mixture. They are so good that they improve your life bar by 33% after eating them. Of course, the improvement lasts two minutes, just as long as it will take to want to eat another one.
final fantasy XIV
We continue with what is probably the most special and appetizing dish on the list. Far from clinging to the term French toast, Final Fantasy XIV takes the recipe back to the opening stage of the game to call it La Noscean Toast.
The delicacy, which boosts experience gain for 30 minutes, consists of a slice of bread dipped in a mixture of buffalo milk and eggs, then fried in creamy butter and dipped in maple syrup. Interestingly it is the only french toast recipe I have found where you need olive oil to cook it.
The Sims
Another case that has piqued me is that of The Sims, which in its third installment asks you for a level 9 to be able to learn the french toast recipe. Four levels above falafel or stew, and only one level below the culinary mastery of lobster with Thermidor sauce.
Are you curious to know what ingredients you need to prepare some tasty French toast in The Sims 3? Well, two apples and an egg. Now, don’t try to understand it because it’s impossible, and yet it’s one of the most celebrated recipes in Sims cuisine.
New World
Amazon’s MMO also has its share of French toast, aka torrijas, and in this case what has struck me the most, apart from how good they look, is the level of complexity that the recipe seems to have. They ask you for a level 40 for your character and a level 4 in the kitchen to be able to go out and soak some toast in milk and fry them. Ferran Adrià would be proud.
In addition to the mixture of bread, eggs, milk, cinnamon and butter, New World adds an ingredient that touches us much more closely, the honey that was used in these parts when we had not yet looked at the sugar well.