Now we buy bread for the occasion, some people like to make torrijas with brioche but traditionally it was a way of using leftover bread.
Ingredients:
1 baguette -large, that have to be sliced, each slice about 1.5cm
4 eggs
1L of milk
1 cup of granulated white sugar
1 lemon peel
1 orange peel
1tsp of cinnamon
Sunflower oil
In a sauce pan we warm up the milk with the cinnamon, the lemon and orange peels and half of the sugar. Stir the milk so the sugar can be disolved.
Heat up the milk just until is about to start boiling.
Leave the milk aside for about 10 minutes.
Remove the lemon and orange peels and soak the slices for about 12 seconds each and place them in a tray.
Meanwhile the oil is warming up we whisk the eggs, when the oil is hot we soak the bread in the eggs and place them into the oil and we fry them until both sides of the bread have a toasted colour.
Put the bread on some paper kitchen towels to we rid of any extra oil.
Place the bread in a container and add some of the leftover milk and the sugar we put aside on top of the bread.
You can enjoy the Torrijas hot or cold.
