Brown the Breakfast Sausage in a skillet and set aside.

Crack all 12 eggs into a bowl, add milk, salt, and pepper. Give that a good whisking.

Use the softened butter to butter one side of 6 of the slices of bread, then lay them butter side down into the 9x13 dish.

Sprinkle half of the sausage over first bread layer.

Sprinkle half the cheese...this is a hard one people I know, sprinkling takes a skilled hand, but the more you sprinkle the easier it gets. I assure you.

Place the last six slices of bread on top of the sausage and cheese layer. I used Texas toast, regular white bread slices work just as good. If you do use the Texas cut, press it down. Give it a little squish. Then repeat with the sausage and cheese sprinkling, use all the cheese and sausage up.

Now you can return to the whisked eggs. Pour eggs evenly over the Strata...did you know strata means layers? Yes-sir-ee. Strata..."Struh-tah". If you say it like that it sounds real fancy.

Let the eggs, bubble down through the layers.

Now tightly cover with plastic wrap place it in your refrigerator over night.

When you are ready to bake it, you will need 1 hour, so leave yourself time. Remove from fridge, remove plastic wrap (I figure you know these simple steps, but I have had people ask, so I am just giving it to you step by step, taking nothing for granted here Folks.) preheat oven to 350 degrees, when up to heat place Strata in and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour. My experience has been closer to the 1 hour mark, especially if you use the thicker bread.