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The Soft of Bread

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Bread crumbs
  2. Must
  3. Apples
  4. 2 Tablespoonfuls of Butter
  5. 1 Pound of Currants
  6. 1 Pound of White Sugar
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Seed the cherries, and butter the bottom of a pudding dish.
  2. Cover the bottom with a layer of the bread crumbs, which must be soft.
  3. Then add a layer of the cherries, which have been cooked like the apples, into a marmalade.
  4. Sprinkle with sugar, and add another layer of cherries, and then a layer of bread crumbs, alternating till the dish is filled, letting the last layer be of crumbs, which you will dot with bits of butter.
  5. Put in an oven and bake for an hour.
  6. Serve cold with cream.
  7. Currant Charlotte.
  8. Charlotte de Groseilles.
  9. 1 Pound of Currants.
  10. 1 Pound of White Sugar.
  11. 2 Tablespoonfuls of Butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Baking dish