Portuguese Rabanadas

Ingredients

• 15 slices day old bread with crusts trimmed
• 1/2 whole milk litr, 2 cups of
• 6 eggs lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cinnamon stick about 2 cm or 1 inch in length
• 2 orange rind long strips of
• 4 tablespoons caster sugar or natural cane sugar
• 13/16 cup water
• 6 tablespoons ruby port
• butter For frying:, real butter, no margarine please