Cinnamon Toast

Spices were considered rare and expensive for the majority of our history. It is only within the last 100 or so years that spices have had a more commonplace presence in our cuisines and diet. Prior to that, they have been the cause of wars, sources of vast wealth and empires, and have held a certain sense of mystique and romance. We tend to forget that spices such as cinnamon, vanilla, and pepper have a colorful past considering their easy presence in all of our cupboards and our recipes. Let’s take, for instance, cinnamon toast – bread, butter, cinnamon and sugar. Simplest thing, right? Well, let’s remember that it has taken centuries for us to reach a place where we could enjoy exotic spices on our toast for breakfast. Recipe as follows.

Cinnamon Toast
2 slices of toast
Butter, softened
1 tbs vanilla sugar (or regular sugar works just fine too)
½ tsp cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, 175 degrees C.

Mix the cinnamon and the sugar in a small bowl. Butter your bread. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the bread slices and place the toast on a lined cookie sheet. Place the cookie sheet in the middle of the oven. Toast for 5-6 minutes.