An easy recipe to make use of bread from just a few days in the past.
Elements:
– A loaf of lactal bread (white, desk bread) sliced, or 6 or 7 French rolls.
– 5 or 6 inexperienced apples.
– 4 eggs.
– 750 cm3 of milk (kind of, relies on how a lot milk the bread absorbs).
– Lemon zest.
– Optionally available: raisins, or nuts.
– Sugar, one cup, or to style, plus one cup for the caramel.
Preparation:
– Caramelize a spherical cake mildew, in accordance with this process: place a cup of sugar within the mildew and place it on the range over medium warmth. Stir with a picket spoon till the sugar begins to show golden. Stir two or three extra instances, till the sugar is sort of all caramelized. Since this dessert will go within the oven, it does not matter if the caramel is not excellent. Flip off the warmth and rotate the mildew to unfold the caramel all around the backside.
– If you don’t want to make caramel, you may butter the underside of the mildew and sprinkle with loads of sugar, though it won’t be the identical.
– Take away the crust from the lactal bread, or reduce it into very skinny slices and take away the crust from the French bread.
– Peel, core and reduce the apples into skinny slices.
– When the caramel is strong, organize a layer of apple slices on it, masking the whole backside of the mildew. Then, on high of it, a layer of bread slices, trimming the bread slices in order that they cowl the underside nicely. It does not matter if it is not excellent, nobody will discover.
– Alternate a layer of apple slices (plus raisins or nuts if used) with a layer of bread, one other of apple and one other of bread.
– In a bowl, beat the eggs, sugar to style, milk and lemon zest.
– Pour the combination over the layers of bread and apple and let it relaxation for quarter-hour, till the whole lot is nicely soaked and the bread has absorbed the liquid. If obligatory, add a little bit extra milk.
– Prepare dinner in a bain-marie (that’s, with a mildew positioned on high of one other in a dish stuffed with chilly water midway) for 50 minutes to an hour, till the pudding is golden and barely puffed.
– This pudding is significantly better ready 24 hours prematurely, and served with a splash of chilly cream, with out whipping.
