Stupid question from someone who should know better - cinnamon toast

thriftlady_2

I fancy trying it with ground ginger instead of cinnamon.

It's a useful teatime treat that you can whip up quickly without having to actually do any baking.

welshie1973

Used to have this with milk made by my grandmother on a saturday afternoon - brings back warm memories even now mmmmm

rosh12

Oh wow- how exciting! I love cinnamon flavoured stuff!! I worked in America one summer and we used to go to a little kiosk in the mall called cinnabon where EVERYTHING was cinnamon flavoured! We also often had cinnamon on french toast, but this BBC recipe is even simpler. I'm SO going to have to make this tonight if we've got any cinnamon in...! :j

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ViksB wrote: »

Last night I fancied a snack and I ummed and arrhed for a bit before finally deciding I wanted cinnamon toast. I hadn't had it for years and years. I mentioned in to dh who looked at me as if I was mad.
I did a quick google and found this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/cinnamontoast_67577.shtml
which was how I remembered it and dh (bless him) cooked it for me.
He loved it, but had never heard of it before. He said it was because I was 'posh'. I said he didn't know about it because he was too 'posh' to have had it.
So did anyone else have cinnamon toast as a kid? is it a posh snack? or it just a regional snack. I grew up in Shropshire and he in Manchester or am I as mad as dh likes to make out!!

Viks

Cinnamon toast was one of the things Nan would have ready for us when we came in from school .. the other possibles being apple fritters or Welsh cakes. She was from rural Gloucestershire, so I dont think its a regional thing or posh.

As for whether or not youre mad ... well, sometimes it helps! :rotfl:

CLARABEL

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh i just loooove cinnamon toast.

when i was a student, my housemates and I became obsessed with the cereal cinamon toast crunch - it was our luxury snack...never to be tainted with milk!! (then it was bought by cinnamon grahams and was never the same again!)

anyway, we reached the point where i would make batches of cinnamon butter and keep it in the fridge so we could have a cheap version on normal toas...so easy to do, just sugar, butter and cinnnamon mixed in the proprotions you like...i love cinnamon so it was loaded in!


think i might have to make some more now....but I'm trying to lose weight...not gain even more!!!

:beer:

clara:rotfl:

emg

We had it as children, mainly because it was a very cheap snack to have at suppertime. We always thought these things were a treat (ditto pancakes and scones) and years later when my mum admitted that we had these types of things at the end of the month when money was getting tight it was a complete shock!

We definitely weren't posh cos it was cut in rectangles rather than triangles!

Katgoddess

I used to have it as a teenager in the 90's. The recipe was in a diary I got free from the Just17 magazine - to be made during the cold winter months. I used to think I was posh! I wasn't.

nodwah

RECIPE??? : make toast, spread with butter, sprinkle sugar, sprinkle cinnamon
not hard.
I had this as a bedtime snack as a kid in Glasgow but my Mancunian In laws thought I was a raving madwoman when I asked for some at their house.
I'm gonna have to go and make some now

thriftlady_2

There are various ways of making it. I used to toast one side of the bread (white was best, thick cut). Then I spread butter on the untoasted side and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, then I put it under the grill until the sugary topping went all bubbly. As it cools it makes a crunchy lacy pattern on the toast.

newleaf

Yes that's how I do it too. Btw, I had a look at the Betty's menu online and cinnamon toast is now £2.35!!!:rotfl: