"I am from France and the "pain perdu " was never made originally with brioche. Pain perdu which mean lost bread was a way to reuse old bread. French bread is to be eaten the day you buy it otherwise the next day it is very hard. therefore we kept the left over bread, put it in a cloth bag and use during the week for pain perdu. Nothing was lost that way. When I was a child "pain perdu ' was not for breakfast but as a "gouter " (a snack") when we came back from school or on our day off as a treat.I till make "Pain perdu" the way my mother taught me and I am 77 years old. My grown up children still enjoy it the same old way. J. Baca

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