To spread butter on a piece of bread.
Before the first toaster was invented
Irma Toastoffski of Salem Mass. accidentally dropped some shaken cream (or butter) onto a loaf of freshly baked bread. After much debate as to whether the concoction was poisonous or not, she tried a slice of the bread and discovered that not only was it not poison, but was in fact, delicious!
Irma distributed the wonderful new pastry to her neighbors, but the superstitious Puritans accused her of witchcraft. Irma was slathered in butter and burned alive with her bread while the villagers chanted "Toast witch, toast!!"
Still,
buttered bread became a huge underground success in
the colonies and soon spread across the world. The rest is history.
"Toast witch, toast!"
Father Jammison bit into his secret slice of
buttered bread with
sinful gusto and proclaimed, "God save my wretched soul, but this is the best damn toast I've ever eaten!"