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Torrija [tore EE ha] n. Spanish dessert made of bread or cake dipped in cinnamon milk and fried.

When we saw this lovely breakfast photo on BocaDorada last week we just had to find out what "torrijas" were. Since our Spanish fluency is, um, rusty at best, we searched through some other sites for a recipe.

While there is some variety in the recipes, all include day-old bread or cake dipped in a sweet liquid and fried. The most common version involved boiling milk with sugar, cinnamon, and lemon peel, then dipping the bread in this, dipping again in egg, and frying. Sometimes they are soaked in syrup afterwards.