Proper Melba Toast

Directions

1. 1
   Toast the bread slices on both sides, under the grill or use a bread toaster.
2. 2
   Cut off the crusts, lay the slices flat on a cutting board, put your hand on top of it, and using a serrated knife slide through the bread to split it, or hold it in your hand and cut through it rotating the slice of bread.
3. 3
   If you want, cut these thin slices into a triangle.
4. 4
   Do these above steps while the bread is still warm otherwise the bread will crumble or break.
5. 5
   Then you toast the untoasted sides under the grill until golden.
6. 6
   The sides will curl up; keep your eye on them because this will go very quick.
7. 7
   This can be made well in advance and kept in a tin.