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 egg yolks
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

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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:

1 Cut 6 slices Sandwich bread and trim off the crust.
2 Put into the blender goblet: 60 ml whole milk, 60 ml liquid cream, 10 g Vanilla sugar, and 2 egg yolks. Blend for a few seconds until smooth and evenly mixed.
3 Pour the mixture into a dish and leave the slices of bread to soak for 10 mintues on one side...
4 ... then 10 minutes on the other side.
5 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.
6 Fry until golden on the first side, then turn over and fry the other side.
7 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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