This brings me straight back to memory-lane! It is a cheap and very sweet dish that the Dutch used to eat for lunch. My mother made it when we came home from school and we had a cup of milk to go with it. Watch your enamel!

Ingredients:

8 slices of day-old white bread
2 eggs
1 liter lukewarm milk
40 gram butter or margarine
2 tbsp icing sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
salt

Mix the milk with a pinch of salt, two level tablespoons sugar and the lightly beaten eggs. Remove the crust from the bread and soak the slices in the milk and egg mix. Butter a frying pan and fry the bread slices on both sides. Serve immediately and sprinkle with remaining icing sugar and cinnamon.

The first part of the word “wentelteefjes” is derived from a word meaning “soaked”, although the more commonly thought meaning of “wallow” is not far off. “Teefje” perhaps is an old word for a particular shape of pastry but also could refer to a female dog.