Subject: molten cinnamon toast
From: Mary
Date: 11/17/2022, 1:48 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
On 11/16/2022 1:56 PM, Mary wrote:
Dear Phaedrus,
In the mid- to late 1950s, at Birch Hill Camp in New Durham, New Hampshire,
the cook served cinnamon toast for breakfast sometimes. It was a slice of
bread with a thick layer of molten, cinnamon-flavored, semi-solid liquid on
top of the bread and a thick and crunchy cinnamon crust over the liquid.
The cook stacked 8 slices of cinnamon toast at an angle in a bread basked
for each table, and the crust was thick and sturdy enough that it didn’t
break in the stack. The toast was very hot. You had to wait for it to
cool a bit so as not to burn your mouth. When you bit into the toast and
the crust, the molten thick cinnamon liquid (the consistency of thick honey)
would ooze out and run down your chin. It was delicious. I’ve never been
able to reproduce it. Can you help? Please. That cinnamon toast is my
best memory from childhood.
Mary
Hi Mary,
I found a lot of mentions of Camp Birch Hill, including their website, but I did not find any mention of a cinnamon toast or a particular toast served there, nor could I find any recipe for "molten cinnamon toast."
Their website is at: Camp Birch Hill
They have a Facebook page at: Camp Birch Hill on Facebook
I will post this for reader input.
Phaed
