Ingredients

boiling water
a slice of bread
a knob of butter or dripping
salt and pepper

Method

Break the bread into a basin and cover with boiling water.
Add the fat, and season with salt and pepper.

A dish served generally for breakfast.
Upper Banwy, Montgomeryshire.

'Siencyn Te' (Bread and Tea)
Add hot tea instead of the boiling water, sweeten the dish with sugar and top with a little cold milk.

'Siencyn' and a lump of cheese was regarded as a nutritious meal served regularly for breakfast or supper in the industrial valleys of south Wales. Dowlais, Glamorgan.

'Sop' was the term given to the same dish in other districts in south Wales.
Ystalyfera, Glamorgan.