Charlotte

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Stew any kind of fruit and season it in any way you like best.
  2. Soak some slices of bread in butter and lay them while hot, in the bottom and round the sides of a dish which has been rubbed with butter.
  3. Put in your fruit and lay slices of bread prepared in the same manner on the top.
  4. Bake it a few minutes.
  5. Turn it carefully into another dish, sprinkle on some powdered sugar, and glaze it with a salamander.

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