Pre electricity days the skillet was the toaster still works better than a toaster.
My Granny always made toast in the gas oven, slathered with butter. (I’ve tried many times to make that toast in an electric oven, and it just never works.)
When it snowed and we were off school, she topped it with brown sugar and cinnamon, and we had tea. Lots of carbs for playing all day in the snow!
(When I was much older, we got an electric toaster. Things were just not the same...)