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Whole Grain Bread Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g whole grain rye bread (grated)
• 0.5 wineglass rum
• 4 pcs egg yolks
• 100 g powdered sugar
• bitter orange peel (a little)
• 4 pcs egg whites (whipped)
• red wine (for drizzling) (as needed)
• sugar, cloves, cinnamon, bitter orange peel (for the wine sauce) (a little)

Instructions

1. Moisten the grated whole grain rye bread with rum and add it to the egg yolks, which have been beaten until frothy with powdered sugar and a little bitter orange peel.
2. After everything is well mixed, fold in the whipped egg whites and bake the dish in a water bath in the oven for a good hour.
3. Unmold and drizzle with red wine, which has been previously boiled with sugar, cloves, cinnamon, and bitter orange peel.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.