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Milk toast is a breakfast dish consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter."An Alphabet For Gourmets" by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, MacMillan Salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, cocoa, raisins or other ingredients may be added."A Stew or a story: an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher" by Joan Reardon, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Counterpoint Press, Originally in Bon Appetit, 1978. In the New England region of the United States, milk toast refers to toast that has been dipped in a milk-based white sauce. Milk toast was a popular food throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially for young children and for the Convalescence, for whom the dish was thought to be soothing and easy to digestion. Although not as popular in the 2000s, milk toast is still considered a comfort food.
Food writer M. F. K. Fisher called milk toast a "warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength", and wrote, of eating milk toast in a famed restaurant with a friend, that the dish was "a small modern miracle of gastronomy". She notes that her homeliest kitchen manuals list it under "Feeding The Sick" or "Invalid Recipes", arguing that milk toast was "an instinctive Palliative care, something like boiled water". Fisher also notes that for true comfort, a ritual may be necessary, and for "Milk Toast people", the dish used may be foolishly important. Her favorite version of milk toast has the milk mixed 50/50 with Campbell's condensed Tomato soup in a wide-lipped pitcher called a boccalino, from Italian Switzerland.
In the American television series Leave It to Beaver, Ward, Wally, and Beaver eat milk toast when Aunt Martha visits in the episode “Beaver’s Short Pants”.
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