MILK TOAST

Milk Toast: for the Ill, Weak, Old, Very Young, or Weary

1 pint milk, part cream if the person is not forbidden that
4 slices good bread, preferably homemade
Sweet butter, if butter is allowed
Salt, Pepper, if not a child or very ill

Heat the milk gently to the simmering point. Meanwhile have ready 4 freshly toasted slices of bread. Butter them generously. Heat a pretty bowl, deeper than it is wide. Break the hot buttered toast into it, pour the steaming but not boiling milk over it, sprinkle a very little salt and pepper on the top, and serve at once.

-taken from “The Art of Eating” by M.F.K. Fisher, p. 680