{"id":10,"date":"2015-02-16T20:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/?p=10"},"modified":"2015-02-22T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T14:40:33","slug":"baked-french-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Baked French Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Betsy was coming to stay for the night, so I thought feeding her breakfast would be a nice idea. I was shopping the day before and picked up a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread thinking it would make nice French toast.<\/p>\n<p>Peg mentioned a recipe for baked French toast with Bailey&#8217;s Irish Cream liqueur in it, and a little bit of searching on the internet provided something like this (original is at tablespoon.com). Quite coincidentally I used Irish butter, which at $3.00 for 8 ounces is both terribly expensive and wonderfully delicious.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 loaf of cinnamon-raisin swirl bread<\/li>\n<li>2 C whole milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 C Bailey&#8217;s Irish Cream liqueur<\/li>\n<li>3 large eggs<\/li>\n<li>3 T sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 t salt<\/li>\n<li>2 T butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FrenchToast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FrenchToast-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"FrenchToast\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FrenchToast-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FrenchToast-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FrenchToast.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used a bit more butter to liberally grease a 9&#8243; ceramic casserole dish, then arranged the bread in layers until the dish was nearly full. You can be as fastidious as you like to fill the dish, but I just rotated each 3-slice stack enough to fit them in nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Mix all the other ingredients except the butter with a whisk until they are very well mixed, and pour the mixture over the prepared bread. Let the mixture soak into the bread for a good 15 minutes, or overnight, refrigerated.<\/p>\n<p>Slice the butter into six or eight pieces, and dab over the surface of the soaked break.<\/p>\n<p>Preheat the oven to 425F.<\/p>\n<p>Bake for 25-35 minutes, until a knife or skewer comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>Rest it for 10 minutes, slice, and serve with syrup and, dare I say, more butter.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 6 if my Aunt Joann is watching, otherwise serves 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Betsy was coming to stay for the night, so I thought feeding her breakfast would be a nice idea. I was shopping the day before and picked up a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread thinking it would make nice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/?p=10\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peggycooks.ohpeggy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}