Melba toast topped with goat's cheese and tomato jam
Type
Toast
Course
Appetizer
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Created by
Auguste Escoffier
Main ingredients
Bread
Media: Melba Toast
Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced rusk, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell.[1] Its name is thought to date from 1897, when the singer was very ill and it became a staple of her diet.[2] The toast was created for her by a chef who was also a fan of her, Auguste Escoffier, who also created the Peach Melba dessert for her. The hotel proprietor César Ritz supposedly named it in a conversation with Escoffier.[3][4]
Melba toast is made by lightly toasting slices of bread under a grill, on both sides. The resulting toast is then sliced laterally. These thin slices are then returned to the grill with the untoasted sides towards the heat source, resulting in toast half the normal thickness.[5] Thus, it can be described as a thrice-baked food.
Melba toast is also available commercially, and was at one time given to infants who were teething as a hard food substance on which to chew. In the UK, this is similar to a commercial product known as French toast,[6] although it is very different from the egg-based dish known as French toast internationally.
In France, it is referred to as croutes en dentelle.[7]
^Fenster, C. (2011). 1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes. 1,000 Recipes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-544-18909-6.
^History of Melba Toast
^Humes, James C. (1978). Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous. Harper and Row. p. 19. ISBN 0-06-012008-8.
^Kipfer, B.A. (2012). The Culinarian: A Kitchen Desk Reference. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-544-18603-3.
^Great British Cookbook – Melba Toast
^"Tesco: French Toast". Tesco. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
^Hensperger, B. (2000). The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-every-time Bread, from Every Kind of Machine. Harvard Common Press. p. 599. ISBN 978-1-55832-156-4.
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