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Prune Far

Far is a traditional recipe from Brittany in northwest France. The name comes from the Breton word 'farz' meaning flour. This is the traditional way, with prunes, but you can adapt it according to taste.

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Last modified on: October 3^rd 2010

For 2 fars, you will need:

0 60 g butter
1 4 eggs
2 180 g caster sugar
3 20 g Vanilla sugar
4 300 g flour
5 1 litre milk
6 400 g dried prunes
Total weight: 2,160 grams

Change those ingredients for: 1 far 2 fars 3 fars

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	45 min.	1 hour 10 min.

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Keeping:

Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Preheat oven to 392°F (200°C).

Melt 60 g butter.

In a bowl beat together 4 eggs, 180 g caster sugar and 20 g Vanilla sugar with a whisk.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Sieve 300 g flour onto this mix, and beat with a whisk.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Pour slowly half of 1 litre milk, beating briskly to get a smooth dough.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Add melted butter.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Continue to beat, adding the second half of milk.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Pour into a mould and scatter over 400 g dried prunes.

Stage 7 - 45 min.

Bake for about 45 minutes.

Stage 8

Check cooking and remove from oven as soon as it is well cooked.

Allow to cool a little before serving either still warm or cold.

Stage 9

Possible variations: replace prunes with dried apricots, or apples pieces briefly pan-fred a littlebutter.

Remarks

You will notice that the dough is very liquid, so it shouldn't be made too far in advance otherwise flour could sink to the bottom. Likewise, you should be careful not to let it become lumpy, so beat thoroughly.

If you don't have vanilla sugar, use normal caster sugar.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,192 Kcal or 17,551 Kj	110 gr	673 gr	124 gr
210 %	42 %	63 %	19 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
194 Kcal or 812 Kj	5 gr	31 gr	6 gr
10 %	2 %	3 %	1 %

Per far
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,096 Kcal or 8,776 Kj	55 gr	337 gr	62 gr
105 %	21 %	32 %	9 %

% 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 2 fars : 4.99 €
Per far : 2.50 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

After Yann Beyer and Sébastien Mével.

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	Dried prunes: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Agen prune cake, Stuffed prunes, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Foie gras fingers, Two-olive ciabatta, Toasted-flour biscuits, Sauce Normande (for fish), Cod loin with saffron, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rhubarb tart, Crusty pistachio, almond and apricot flan, Caramelized pear custard tart, Dublin fruit scones, Tea and white chocolate biscuits, ... All

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Your 1 comments or questions on this recipe

I may try this as you suggest with apricots. The new time information is nice added touch, JH. Thanks for sharing:)
Posted by louise march 26^th 2009 at 11:39 (n° 1)

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