can anyone explain about melba tost?

Answer 1

Melba toast is a very dry, crisp, thinly sliced toast. It is served with soups and salads, or topped with melted cheese. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name for Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell, and is thought to date back to 1897, a year when the singer was very ill and this kind of toast became a staple of her diet.

Here's a recipe

* 1 long thin loaf of French bread
* butter, softened
* fresh grated Parmesan cheese


Slice loaf into 1/4-inch slices. Spread slices with butter then sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Place on a cake rack or other rack over a baking sheet, so drips will be caught and air will move around the slices.Bake at 325° for about 20 minutes, or until dry and very crispy.

Answer 2

Melba toast

NOUN: Very thinly sliced crisp toast.
ETYMOLOGY: After Dame Nellie Melba.
WORD HISTORY: The familiar foods named for Helen Porter Mitchell are not recognizable as such unless one knows her stage name was Dame Nellie Melba. This famous opera singer of the late 19th and early 20th century, who took her last name from her native city of Melbourne, inspired others to honor her by naming things such as “soaps and sauces, ribbons and ruffles” after her. Perhaps the best known of such honors are Melba toast and peach Melba. Auguste Escoffier, the famous chef, is thought to have had a hand in both. Melba toast is said to be derived from the crisp toast that was part of Dame Melba's diet during the year 1897, a year in which she was very ill. The hotel proprietor César Ritz supposedly named it in a conversation with Escoffier. Pêche Melba was said to have been created by Escoffier for an 1892 party honoring the singer at the Savoy Hotel in London, although neither Escoffier nor Melba agreed with this version of events. Peach Melba is first recorded in English in 1905 (in the form Pêches à la Melba) and Melba toast in 1925.

Answer 3

Melba toast is a very dry, crisp, thinly sliced toast often served with soups and salads, or topped with melted cheese. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell. The term is thought to date back to 1897, a year when the singer was very ill and this kind of toast became a staple of her diet.

Melba toast is made by lightly toasting bread in the normal way. Once the outsides of the bread are slightly firm, it is removed from the toaster and then each slice is cut in half "longitudinally" with a bread knife to make two slices each half the thickness. These two thin slices are then toasted again to make Melba Toast.

A character in Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused (1993) names his muscle car Melba Toast. In one episode of the American animated series Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko becomes infatuated with a girl named Melba Toast.

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Melba toast
n.
Very thinly sliced crisp toast.

[After Dame Nellie MELBA.]

WORD HISTORY The familiar foods named for Helen Porter Mitchell are not recognizable as such unless one knows her stage name was Dame Nellie Melba. This famous opera singer of the late 19th and early 20th century, who took her last name from her native city of Melbourne, inspired others to honor her by naming things such as “soaps and sauces, ribbons and ruffles” after her. Perhaps the best known of such honors are Melba toast and peach Melba. Auguste Escoffier, the famous chef, is thought to have had a hand in both. Melba toast is said to be derived from the crisp toast that was part of Dame Melba's diet during the year 1897, a year in which she was very ill. The hotel proprietor César Ritz supposedly named it in a conversation with Escoffier. Pêche Melba was said to have been created by Escoffier for an 1892 party honoring the singer at the Savoy Hotel in London, although neither Escoffier nor Melba agreed with this version of events. Peach Melba is first recorded in English in 1905 (in the form Pêches à la Melba) and Melba toast in 1925.

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Answer 4

i locate this question dry and tasteless. And for the record Melba won't be able to cook dinner a lick. The bit*h shrank the toast. For the affection of Pete how the hell do you chop back toast? Did she ignore and placed it in the drier? No ask your self they under no circumstances enable her cook dinner some thing else. You ever heard of Melba steak or Melba cake? No because the bit*h shrank the toast.

Answer 5

Boring, bland small cuts of dry white bread

Answer 6

Restaurants didn't want to waste money throwing out old bread so they starting marketing stale old dry bread to make more money off customers.