Pain perdu

This is a sweet French version of "eggy bread": slices of bread soaked in a mixture of milk, cream, egg yolks and vanilla sugar, then pan-fried until golden. It's really simple and wickedly delicious!

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For 6 sliceds bread, you will need:

6 slices Sandwich bread
60 ml whole milk
60 ml liquid cream
10 g Vanilla sugar
2 eggs yolk
4 tablespoons caster sugar
3 tablespoons Clarified butter
maple syrup (optional)

Nutritional information:

Whole recipe

Calories

979

49%

Proteins

11g

Carbohydrates

75g

Fats

71g

11%

Per 100 g

Calories

356

18%

Proteins

Carbohydrates

27g

Fats

26g

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

Times:

Preparation : 13 min.
Resting : 20 min.
Cooking : 6 min.
Start to finish : 39 min.

Preservation : Just a few minutes once cooked.

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For 6 sliceds bread : 0.93 €
Per sliced bread : 0.16 €

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Step by step recipe:

Cut 6 slices Sandwich bread and trim off the crust.
Put into the blender goblet: 60 ml whole milk, 60 ml liquid cream, 10 g Vanilla sugar, and 2 eggs yolk. Blend for a few seconds until smooth and evenly mixed.
Pour the mixture into a dish and leave the slices of bread to soak for 10 mintues on one side...
... then 10 minutes on the other side.
Melt 3 tablespoons Clarified butter in a large frying pan over medium heat. Sprinkle the slices with sugar and place in the pan sugar side downwards.
Fry until golden on the first side, then turn over and fry the other side.
It's ready. Serve hot or warm. You can drizzle maple syrup over the top if you wish.

Remarks:

This is a good way of using up bread that is going a bit dry, as this works even better than fresh bread.

You can make it with brioche too, and serve it simply with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, for example, or a little really cold whipped cream (chantilly).

Source:

Home made, but based on how my mother used to make it when I was little.

Last modified on: July 20^th 2011

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