In England this dish, bread dipped in an egg-&-milk batter & fried, is called "Poor Knights of Windsor"
The bread may be soaked in various
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familiar recipe for fine white bread soaked in milk, fried and coated with honey, ... 
the exterior crispness, while butter softens this batter-like coating.