Charlotte
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- fruit
- bread
- butter
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- Stew any kind of fruit and season it in any way you like best.
- 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.
- Put in your fruit and lay slices of bread prepared in the same manner on the top.
- Bake it a few minutes.
- Turn it carefully into another dish, sprinkle on some powdered sugar, and glaze it with a salamander.