A dessert of recycling from the French tradition for true gourmands. Here's how it is prepared and how you can vary the recipe with jams and spices
There are many recipes that, born from the need of recycle ingredients, they have become very famous in the world. In particular those that provide for the reuse of the bread. And one of these is undoubtedly the pain perdu, a delicious and comfortable French cake, to be prepared in no time and perfect for breakfast, but not only!
Sweet recycling with stale bread
The pain perdu recipe
Pain perdu in French means lost breadbecause the idea is to use a bread that would otherwise be lost because no longer fresh and fragrant.
The pain perdù is the French version and recycling of the famous French Toast American.
To prepare it, just dip slices of bread, better if stale, in a mix of milk and beaten eggs.
Once the bread has softened, but not too much, it is cooked in a pan with a knob of butter and sprinkle with sugar.
Generally it is used with one good jam, but someone likes to make this dessert even greedier with one icecream ball or of the hazelnut cream.
If you love spices you can also flavor the egg and milk mixture with cinnamon, ginger or nutmeg.
What is the most suitable bread?
Of course the advanced bread it is ideal in this recipe that comes from the need to recycle it in a creative and delicious way. Any kind of bread, so it's fine, even if the ideal is the bread in the box because it has a soft crust.
You can also use panettone and pandoro at Christmas or the dove at Easter for a pain perdu certainly sweeter and greedy.
Bread and jam pudding
The alternative to cooking in a pan with butter is the oven.
Try to arrange the slices of bread slightly overlapped inside one buttered oven dish and spread them two by two as if they were sandwiches with jam to taste, then pour the mixture of eggs and milk to cover everything and bake.
You will get a kind of bread and jam cake from the consistency of a sweet to the spoon, delicious to serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream. For the bread puddinginstead, cut the bread in cubes is stir with milk, eggs and sugar until it is well soaked, then bake it.
If you are curious to try this delicious French dessert and its variants, take a look at the tutorial that collects many inspirations!
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