Pain perdu

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 sliceds bread, you will need:

• 1 6 slices sandwich bread
• 2 60 ml whole milk
• 3 60 ml liquid cream
• 4 10 g vanilla sugar
• 5 2 egg yolks
• 6 4 tablespoons caster sugar
• 7 3 tablespoons clarified butter
• 8 maple syrup (optional)
• Total weight: 515 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
15 min.	20 min.	6 min.	40 min.

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).

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