Pudding au pain à la Française (French Bread Pudding)

Ingredients

• 300 grammes crumb of white bread
• 1 litre milk
• 250 grammes sugar
• 4 whole eggs
• 6 yolks
• 4 egg whites
• butter and fine breadcrumbs
• Crème anglaise

Instructions

1. Soak 300 grammes of crumb of white bread in a litre of boiled milk flavoured with vanilla and sweetened with 250 grammes of sugar.
2. Pass the mixture through a sieve.
3. Add 4 whole eggs and 6 yolks, then 4 egg whites whisked to a snow.
4. Pour into a high border mould, buttered and dusted with fine breadcrumbs.
5. Poach in a bain-marie.
6. Serve with either a Crème anglaise, a Sabayon with vanilla, or a sauce aux Fruits.