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Fruit Pudding

8 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g stale white bread
• 0.75 l milk
• 125 g butter
• 6 pcs eggs
• 175 g sifted sugar
• lemon peel (a little)
• 500 g sour apples or sour cherries, sliced

Instructions

1. Soak the thinly peeled white bread in milk and stir with the butter over the heat until it detaches from the pot, then let it steam off.
2. Stir in 75 g of the sugar, egg yolks, and lemon zest, and finally fold in the stiff egg white foam.
3. Layer the mixture alternately with the sliced apples or cherries, sprinkled with the remaining sugar, into the mold.
4. Cook the pudding for 2 hours and serve without sauce, only sprinkled with sugar.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.