My mom taught us to eat zwieback as children and she had it all through her life as her mother and grandmother made it from their day-old bread. She remembers it well and we grew up on the Nabisco Zwieback in the little yellow package with the cute baby on the package! We dunked it in Possum which has also been discontinued. So sad...We've missed it all these years. My mother has come to live with me at 86-years-of-age and was talking about making it out of some store bought breads. I just couldn't do that because nothing else would smell and taste like Zwieback - UNTIL we tried this recipe. We made it last night and this morning, upon cutting into the loaf, that wonderful, fragrant smell of zwieback was there! I ran downstairs with a piece for my mother to smell! We were delighted but of course were even more delighted when we tasted the bread. It is a perfect clone of the zwieback we both remember. Yum Yum We are now in the process of packaging it to send to my sister so she, too, can enjoy this delightful zwieback toast. Thank you so much for the recipe. (We did use the 1/2 tsp of nutmeg and also used potato water for the milk which gave a very good flavor to the bread)

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