Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] New Yorker fact checkers
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun Sep 23 14:02:34 2007
References: <9F326CDE-3248-4B26-A5FB-BE20FCFDD51E@pandora.be> <C31C49CF.6BF94%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The term Lost refers to the bread that would be unusable as table bread as
it has gotten hard and dry.  That very thing is what make it good for Pain
perdu, (lost bread)

Sonny

On 9/23/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
> > Over here it's what we call 'lost bread':
> > old white bread dipped in egg, milk and some sugar (all mixed
> > together), thrown in a pan with some butter. Flip over when it gets
> > the pancake colour, sprinkle with some white sugar.
> >
> > Delicious.
> > And 60 web pages of definitions from that guy.
> >
> > Philippe
> >
>
>
> Yes well your French perhaps maybe you can tell me.
> What do the French in this case mean when they say "lost".
>
>
> Seems like it could mean a lot more than we think over here.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> rabinergroup.com
>
>
>
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