‘Bread soaked in boiling fat pottage, made of salted meat’ (Johnson).

Any of various (usually sweet) dishes using stale bread; esp. stale bread dipped in egg and milk and fried; French toast.

(a) bread soaked in hot milk, considered as a plain or readily digestible meal suitable for children, convalescent people, etc., or else used as…

plural. A dish composed of steeped slices of bread, sweetened and sometimes spiced. Also figurative. (Earlier †sugared sops: see sugared, adj. 1.)

(more fully Poor Knights of Windsor) a type of dessert, typically made using stale bread and milk, and sweetened with sugar, jam, etc.; = pain perdu…

bread steeped in hot water or milk, sometimes with seasoning or sugar; cf. bread and milk n. (a) at phrases 2b, aleberry, n.

toast softened in milk; cf. Milquetoast, n. adj.

A dish composed of soaked bread.

(see quot.).

Chiefly Services' slang. Bread soaked in tea. Usually plural. Also applied loosely to other food.