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Bread Pie

Bread pie of stale white bread soaked in milk, layered with currants, poured over with an egg mixture with cream, sprinkled with rusk and melted butter, and baked in the oven.

Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 464 (falt i det fri)

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About the dish

A small, thrifty bread dish in the dessert chapter, where stale white bread is soaked in milk, layered with currants, and gratinated with a rusk topping and melted butter.

How to make it

  1. 1

    Soak the bread

    Remove the crust from the stale white bread, cut it into slices, and soak the slices in the milk for about 30 minutes.

  2. 2

    Fill the dish

    Layer the bread slices in a greased dish with the cleaned and blanched currants between the layers.

  3. 3

    Egg mixture

    Whisk the egg with sugar and cream and pour the mixture over the bread.

  4. 4

    Topping

    Sprinkle crushed rusk over and drizzle the melted butter over the top.

  5. 5

    Bake

    Bake the pie in the oven at about 175 °C (345 °F) for 30–35 minutes until it is golden and cooked through.

Changes from the original

Measures are converted to modern units (1¼ dl cream, 2.5 dl milk). Rusk is kept, but can be replaced with breadcrumbs. The original gives no baking time; about 30–35 minutes at 175 °C (345 °F) is estimated from the other bread puddings.

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Modernised → 1949 (proofread, p. 530)~83% of the text changedremovedadded
250 g gammelt loff (skorpen skrelt av). 2,5 dl melk (til bløtlegging). 20 g 500 gr. franskbrød 125 gr. korinter (rensede og forvellede). 1 stk egg. 30 g sukker. 1,25 dl fløte. egg % 1. melk 100 gr. sukker 10 g kavring (støtt, til strø). 30 g gr. smør (smeltet). Skrell skorpen av det gamle loffet, skjær det 10 gr. kavring 1% del. fløte. Gammelt franskbrød avskrelles skorpen, skjæres i skiver og bløt skivene bløtes i melken i ca. 30 minutter.. Legg brødskivene lagvis y 2 time. Brødskivene legges i en smurt form lagvis med de rensede og forvellede korintene mellom lagene.. Pisk egget korinter. Egget vispes med sukker sukkeret og fløte fløten og hell blandingen helles over brødet.. Strø brødet. Strøes over med støtt kavring over og dryp dryppes med det smeltede smøret utover.. Stek paien i ovnen ved ca. 175 °C i 30–35 minutter til den er gyllen og gjennomstekt. smør.

Note on Modernised

Mål er omregnet til moderne enheter (1¼ dl fløte, 2,5 dl melk). Kavring er beholdt, men kan erstattes med griljermel. Originalen oppgir ingen steketid; ca. 30–35 minutter ved 175 °C er anslått ut fra de øvrige brødpuddingene.

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Frequently asked questions

Why must the bread be soaked in milk first?
Stale white bread is dry. The crust is removed, the bread is cut into slices and soaked in ¼ liter of milk for half an hour, so that the pie becomes moist and soft.
What is meant by blanching the currants?
The currants (20 grams) are cleaned and quickly rinsed/scalded in boiling water. This makes them clean and slightly plumped before they are layered between the bread slices.
How is the pie assembled?
The bread slices are layered with currants in a greased dish. One egg is whisked with 30 g sugar and 1¼ deciliters of cream and poured over. Sprinkle 10 g crushed rusk over and drizzle on 30 g melted butter before baking.
How old is the recipe?
It is from Henriette Schønberg Erken's «Stor kokebok» from 1914, page 464, and serves about 4 with around 80 minutes total time.

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