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Bread Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g dark bread (hearty, slightly stale, grated)
• 0.5 wineglass wine, arrack, or rum
• 150 g butter
• 2 pcs eggs (whole)
• 2 pcs egg yolks
• 100 g sugar (fine)
• 75 g almonds (grated)
• cinnamon (crushed) (a little)
• lemon zest (a little)
• 2 pcs egg whites (whipped)
• Chaudau sauce (for serving) (as needed)

Instructions

1. Moisten the grated dark bread with wine, arrack, or rum.
2. Cream the butter, then add whole eggs, egg yolks, fine sugar, grated almonds, a little crushed cinnamon, lemon zest, and finally the bread.
3. After everything is well mixed, fold in the whipped egg whites, fill the mixture into a greased mold, and bake for an hour in the oven.
4. Serve unmolded with Chaudau sauce.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.