National French Toast Day Timeline

2019

Cereal French Toast

A Seattle restaurant adds breakfast cereal to its French Toast recipe — which also includes milk, eggs, cinnamon, salt, butter, thick bread and whipped cream. (They use both Fruity Pebbles and Frosted Flakes.)

1871

French Toast Hits America

The "Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink" first includes the phrase "French toast."

1400s

A recipe flung far and wide

Various recipes for what we call French toast spread the world over.

4th Century BC

A timeless recipe

An early collection of recipes, the "Apicius," describes a sweet treat known then as "aliter dulcia," or "another sweet dish."