Recipe - Baked Orange French Toast

4 Eggs
2/3 cup Orange juice; freshly
squeezed
1/3 cup Milk
One fourth cup Sugar
One fourth teaspoon Ground nutmeg
One half teaspoon Vanilla
8 1 inch slice French toast
1/3 cup Butter or margarine
One half cup Pecan pieces

Confectioners' sugar, orange slices and mint for garnish.

With a wire whisk, beat together eggs, orange juice, milk, sugar, nutmeg
and vanilla. Place bread in single layer to fit tightly in a 9x13 inch
casserole dish. Pour milk mixture over bread. Cover and refrigerate
overnight, turning once.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Pour melted butter into a different 9x13 inch
casserole dish. Spread butter evenly. Arrange soaked bread in a single
layer in the casserole dish. Sprinkle with pecan pieces. Bake until golden
brown, about 2025 minutes. When removed from oven, sprinkle with hint of
confectioners' sugar for presentation. Garnish with orange slices and fresh
mint. Serve with warm maple syrup or fresh fruit. Makes 4 servings.

The McKay House innkeepers add a "secret" ingredient that makes this recipe
unique. Guests enjoy trying to "guess" what the ingredient is. However, if
prepared in the above manner, you will still enjoy this wonderful dish, but
their "secret" ingredient has been left out!

Recipe by: McKay House Bed & Breakfast Inn, Jefferson, Texas

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by "Joyce Bennis" Joyce_B@email.msn.com on
Mar 23, 1998