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The word "toast", which means "sliced bread singed by heat" comes from the Latin torrere, "to burn".[3] The first reference to toast in print is in a recipe for Oyle Soppys (flavoured onions stewed in a gallon of stale beer and a pint of oil) that dates from 1430.[4] In the 1400s and 1500s, toast was discarded or eaten after it was used as a flavouring for drinks[4]In the 1600s, toast was still thought of as something that was "put it into drinks. Shakespeare gave this line to Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1616: "Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke [sherry], put a tost in 't."[4] By the 1700s, there were references to "toast" as a gesture that indicates sexual attraction for a person: "Ay, Madam, it has been your Life's whole Pride of late to be the Common Toast of every Publick Table."[4]

Toast has been used as an element of American haute cuisine since at least the 1850s.[5]

Preparation[edit]

A classic two-slot toaster
In a modern home kitchen, the usual method of UTF-8