Once Upon A Time Recipes

I am linking to Cathy @ A Bit of the Blarney, she is hosting 'Once Upon A Time Recipes' where she shares a family recipe and a story to go with it.



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Before my brother-in-law Eric passed away he and his wife Barbara used to have a big family reunion weekend at least once a year (sometimes twice a year) at their log cabin home in Connecticut. They had lots of property and we all used to pile in on them, some of us slept in the house and some of us would pitch tents on their property.
It was always lots of fun and we all looked forward to Barbara's breakfast of:

OVERNIGHT FRENCH TOAST

Ingredients:

loaf of French or Italian Bread
8 eggs
3 Cups milk
2 Tablespoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon vanilla
2 Tablespoons butter or margarine

Grease pan well and slice bread into 1 inch slices. Fit bread into one large or two small baking pans.
Beat together all ingredients except butter and pour evenly over bread.
Dot each slice with butter and cover with foil.

Refrigerate overnight (8 to 12 hours).
Bake at 350 degrees for one hour (rotate pans after 1/2 hour).

Serve immediately with syrup or powdered sugar.

(Of course Barbara used to double, triple, and sometimes quadruple her recipe depending on crowd size. Barbara liked to sleep in late, so she would prepare this the night before and then first one up would retrieve the pans from the refrigerator and pop them in the oven!)

This recipe holds many fond memories for me.