It tasted like broken dreams.
The first step was the make the egg mixture. Simple enough.
There was going to be a picture of the egg mixture here, but it has apparently fled, too ashamed to appear in this post. So here's a baby panda instead.
The second step was to soak the bread in the egg mixture. I had halved the recipe in case this turned into a disaster (accurate prediction) and used only three slices of bread. I over-soaked the first slice, but I got the second slice just right.
A promising start.
Because of my over-enthusiastic soaking of the first piece, it was falling apart and there wasn't enough mix for the third piece. So I squeezed the first piece's egg juice back into the bowl. Because I'm insane. Then I used that egg mixture to soak the last piece of bread and got it just right.
Don't ask me for good ideas.
The next thing to do was to preheat the oven. You fry these, then bake them. The recipe said 2-3 minutes until golden brown. I don't think I fried them long enough, though it was at the right temperature, with the right amount of butter, in a nonstick skillet as was recommended, for the maximum amount of time.
Missing the crucial "brown" part of the equation.
I put them in the oven and let them cook for five minutes. I poked them open in a few places just to make sure that egg mixture really had cooked. It had. I put a little bit of butter and some maple syrup on top, then had a bite.
Moments before my hopes were dashed cruelly upon the rocks.
They were flavorless. Quite literally flavorless. I tried it unbuttered and unsyruped and there was zero flavor. With butter and syrup I could taste butter and syrup.
I'm going to try again tomorrow, but with my mom's recipe.
Wish me luck.
