French Toast (america's Test Kitchen)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 slices high-quality bread
• 6 tablespoons . unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups whole milk
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• ground nutmeg, a pinch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 adjust an oven rack to the middle position; preheat oven to 200°.
• 2 arrange the bread on a wire rack set over a baking sheet and bake until slightly dry, about 15 minutes; set aside, leaving the oven on.
• 3 line a second baking sheet with a wire rack; set aside.
• 4 meanwhile, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter and whisk it together with the milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl.
• 5 slowly whisk in the flour until smooth.
• 6 pour the batter into a large shallow dish.
• 7 lay 2 pieces of the dried bread in the batter and briefly soak both sides, about 30 seconds per side.
• 8 meanwhile, melt 1 more tablespoon butter in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat until beginning to brown, swirling to coat the pan.
• 9 remove the bread from the batter, allowing excess batter to drip back into the dish, and lay in the hot skillet.
• 10 cook until golden brown on both sides, about 2 1/2 minutes per side.
• 11 transfer the french toast to the wire rack (do not overlap) and keep warm in the oven.
• 12 repeat with the remaining bread, butter, and batter.
• 13 serve.