I’ve been trying to be inspired to cool by actually reading the cookbooks I currently possess. I have to admit this isn’t something I’ve ever actually done before.

So while perusing Nigella Lawson’s How To Eat I ran across a sentence discussing the American comfort food of cinnamon toast. And she described how to make it as whipping together butter, sugar, and cinnamon.

I did a double take. Never in my life have I made cinnamon toast by blending anything. What on earth was she on about? Is it because she’s British and clearly has no clue?

Then it occured to me. Maybe *I* am the wierd one here. Maybe my mom is the one who doesn’t know how to make cinnamon toast. So I thought I’d take a look-see.

• Cooks.com instructs you to mix sugar and cinnamon in a separate container, shake over already buttered toast, then broil until sugar bubbles. I never bothered with the separate container, it’s not exactly hard to shake it out of both the sugar and cinnamon containers. The broiling part sounds interesting, though.
• Apparently there’s a cooking monkey who also bubbles his toast. Hmm.
• With the exception of my already mentioned aversion to mixing the cinnamon and sugar, allrecipes.com does it like I do.
• And so on and so forth. They pretty much all follow the above.

Hurrah! I’m not a freak. But I am intrigued by the broiling. I suddenly wish I had a toaster oven.

So how do YOU make your cinnamon toast?

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