Sprinkle…

A long time ago, I had some bread in the house, a few slices of a sandwich loaf but I did not have any peanut butter, fruit jam or kaya (coconut jam) and I did not feel like boiling or frying some eggs to make an egg sandwich…

I could remember what my mum used to do in my growing up years. She would toast the bread, apply butter to it and sprinkle some sugar on top for us to eat it like that and yes, I could recall how we used to enjoy that. I decided to do that exact same thing that morning after which I took some photographs and shared them on my Facebook page.

I did not expect the excitement that ensued. Many of my family members and friends commented that they grew up eating that and loved it so much, adding that they had not had it for a long time so they couldn’t wait to rush out to buy some bread and make that for themselves. That certainly took me by surprise as I thought we were the only ones eating that as the last resort when there was not much else in the house.

Well, the other day, I bought a baguette/French loaf from a bakery in town, thinking that my girl would want to make some banh mi…

…for our Vietnamese dinner that day on my birthday. It turned out that she did not tell the mum so they did not prepare any ingredients for the sandwich. In the end, we just did without that and had slices of the loaf for our breakfast or tea.

There were a few slices left and I decided to make some sprinkle toast with them. I stumbled upon this guy’s blog where he was describing how his sister, Molly, did hers which was exactly like what my mum did and what I did as well that previous time. I did it differently that day and it turned out that that was exactly what that guy did! I just applied a generous layer of butter to each slice, sprinkled a lot of low GI brown sugar on top and put the slices in the oven to toast.

It sure turned out really well…

The toasted bread was hard and crusty, very fragrant and the melted butter and sugar on it…

…sure brought the taste to a whole new level, simple but nice!

Of course, I only had one slice myself. Never mind that the sugar was low GI, sugar is sugar and now that I am on a low-sugar diet, I should not be eating a lot of that. I thought it tasted great and I sure wouldn’t mind another slice or two. Sighhh!!! In the end, I just left it to the ladies in the house to finish them off.

Yes, I have seen them selling this at the bakeries in town, probably made using the unsold bread that they are stuck with. There must be people buying or they would not have bothered. I never bought any, of course, as I am sure they only use some butter substitute or margarine, not real butter and needless to say, they wouldn’t be all that generous with the sugar.