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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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Last modified on: July 20^th 2011

For 6 sliceds bread, you will need:

0 6 slices Sandwich bread
1 60 ml whole milk
2 60 ml liquid cream
3 10 g Vanilla sugar
4 2 egg yolks
5 4 tablespoons caster sugar
6 3 tablespoons Clarified butter
7 maple syrup (optional)
Total weight: 515 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

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

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Cut 6 slices Sandwich bread and trim off the crust.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Pour the mixture into a dish and leave the slices of bread to soak for 10 mintues on one side...

Stage 4 - 10 min.

... then 10 minutes on the other side.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

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.

Stage 6 - 6 min.

Fry until golden on the first side, then turn over and fry the other side.

Stage 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).

Keeping:

Just a few minutes once cooked.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,593 Kcal or 6,670 Kj	31 gr	182 gr	85 gr
80 %	12 %	17 %	13 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
309 Kcal or 1,294 Kj	6 gr	35 gr	16 gr
15 %	2 %	3 %	2 %

Per sliced bread
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
266 Kcal or 1,114 Kj	5 gr	30 gr	14 gr
13 %	2 %	3 %	2 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 sliceds bread : 1.67 €
Per sliced bread : 0.28 €

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Source

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

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Whole milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, Cannelés, Cheese Soufflé, Parisian-style chocolate custard tart, Celeriac soup with mustard, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sea bass with coriander cream en papillote, Croque-monsieur complet, Cream of cauliflower soup with smoked haddock , Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Firied fillet of sea bream with polenta, ... All
	Vanilla sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Toasted almond cake, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Chaud-froid of grapefruit, pineapple and lime custard , Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Lemon and grated apple tart, ... All
	Sandwich bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Genoese croque-monsieur, Croque-monsieur, Spinach Croque-monsieur , Fried egg in bread, Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches , ... All

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