French Toast with Homemade Cherry Jam

I'm cooking for my Dad this week and decided to make something a little different for his breakfast. I have made French toast for years without using a real recipe, but thought I would provide one for the novice cooks among you. This one is taken from the Laura Secord Canadian Cookbook. The very best thing about this French toast was my sister's cherry jam that we put on top. She made it in the fall, well after cherry season was over, by chopping up frozen sour cherries in a food processor and simply following the directions for cherry jam that are contained inside the Certo package. It is the rubiest red jam that you can imagine.

Ingredients for French toast:
- sliced bread
- 3 beaten eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt

Combine the eggs, milk, butter and salt and place the mixture in a shallow dish. Dip the bread slices into the egg mixture and brown on both sides on a hot well-buttered griddle.