Name: Rabanadas (Portuguese Fried Toast)
Ingredients: 1 tb Sugar; 1/2 c Warm milk; 1/4 c Rum; 8 sl White bread from square loaf; 2 Eggs, beaten; 1/2 Stick butter; Confectioner's sugar; Ground cinnamon

Someone once said we are all brought to the same level at the foot of the cross. The cross pours contempt on our pride and screams to us that reconciliation with God was entirely the work of Jesus. The cross screams to us that God justifies all His children with the same infinite love. The cross screams to us that we are all adopted into the same spiritual family in the same way with the same privileges. The cross screams to us that the sins of disunity such as discord, hatred, bitterness, strife, divisiveness, malice, jealousy, envy, disgust, indifference, unforgiveness have all been shattered by the cross and are therefore unacceptable amongst God’s redeemed. The cross teaches us that the grace that saves us results in grace that transforms us to live more like Jesus Christ, the “Prince of Peace” Himself. And the cross teaches us to join Paul in his never-ending refrain of boasting only in the cross (Gal. 6:14). And with our eyes on the cross, we strike a deathblow to our pride which fuels our divisions.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs	Portuguese	Breads, Desserts	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	tb	Sugar
1/2	c	Warm milk
1/4	c	Rum
8	sl	White bread from square loaf
2		Eggs, beaten
1/2		Stick butter
		Confectioner's sugar
		Ground cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix first 3 ingredients. Soak bread in this mixture. "Now lift each slice
carefully with a wide spatula and dip in beaten egg to cover both sides.
Carefully transfer each slice to a frying-pan in which plenty of butter is
quietly sizzling. Fry golden-brown on both sides. Sprinkle with sugar and
cinnamon."

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