Crème Villageoise (Village-Style Baked Cream)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Soak 150 grammes of dry biscuits with kirsch and anisette.
  2. Arrange them in a deep dish in layers alternating with marmalade of seasonal fruit, such as pears or apples.
  3. Work 200 grammes of caster sugar with 8 eggs and 4 yolks, then thin the mixture with a litre of milk.
  4. Cover the whole with this composition.
  5. Poach in a bain-marie in the oven.

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